Eliminating the diagnosis atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance: Impact on the accuracy of the Papanicolaou test

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 783-787

  Sodhani, Pushpa ^a,b   Gupta, Sanjay ^a,b   Singh, Veena ^a,c   Sehgal, Ashok ^a,d   Mitra, Ardhendu Bikash ^a,e  

^a MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Division of Cytopathology   (India)

^c Divisions of Clinical Research

^d Division of Epidemiology

^e Division of Molecular Genetics

Author keywords

ASCUS; Cervical cancer; Cervix neoplasms; Papanicolaou smear

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL SQUAMOUS CELLS OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 8744231053     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326446     Document Type: Review

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