Early Experience after Developing a Pathology Laboratory in Malawi, with Emphasis on Cancer Diagnoses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Gopal, Satish ^a,b,c,g   Krysiak, Robert ^c   Liomba, N George ^c   Horner, Marie Josephe ^d   Shores, Carol G ^a,b,e   Alide, Noor ^f   Kamiza, Steve ^g   Kampani, Coxcilly ^c   Chimzimu, Fred ^c   Fedoriw, Yuri ^a,b   Dittmer, Dirk P ^a,b   Hosseinipour, Mina C ^a,c,g   Hoffman, Irving F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT   (Malawi)

^d IL   (United States)

^e University of Malawi College of Medicine ^*  (Malawi)

^f KAMUZU CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Malawi)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALAWI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881355242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070361     Document Type: Article

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