Vaginal lubricant gel as an artefact on a Pap smear

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 431-

  Martínez Girón, Rafael ^a   Martínez Torre, Santiago ^b   Fernández García, Cristina ^a  

^a Instituto de Piedras Blancas Asturias   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT;

ARTIFACT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NOTE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUBRICANTS; VAGINAL CREAMS, FOAMS, AND JELLIES; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 79956153743     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21437     Document Type: Note

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