Room for improvement: Initial experience with anal cytology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1550-1554

  Darragh, Teresa M ^a   Winkler, Barbara ^b   Souers, Rhona J ^c   Laucirica, Rodolfo ^d   Zhao, Chengquan ^e   Moriarty, Ann T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Mount Kisco Medical Group   (United States)

^c North Carolina   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f AmeriPath ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMEBIASIS; ANAL CANAL; ANUS DISEASE; ANUS TUMOR; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ANAL CANAL; ANUS DISEASES; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DYSENTERY, AMEBIC; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887843067     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2012-0574-CP     Document Type: Article

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