Accuracy of visual inspection with acetic acid for cervical cancer screening

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-24

  Sauvaget, Catherine ^a   Fayette, Jean Marie ^a   Muwonge, Richard ^a   Wesley, Ramani ^b   Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Diagnostic test performance; Pooled analysis; Screening; Visual inspection

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID;

CANCER SCREENING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VISUAL INSPECTION WITH ACETIC ACID;

EID: 79952991239     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2010.10.012     Document Type: Review

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