Prevalence of abnormal cervical cytology among subfertile Saudi women

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 397-400

  Al Jaroudi, Dania ^a   Hussain, Tasnim ^a  

^a Reproductive Medicine Unit   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; SCREENING; SQUAMOUS CELL; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CERVIX UTERI; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956255861     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 09754466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4947.68550     Document Type: Article

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