Cytological Analysis of Cervical Papanicolaou Smears in a Tertiary Hospital in Calabar, Nigeria
Godstime I. Irabor, Dominic Akpan, Ejemen G. Aigbe, Gift E. Irabor, Omoruyi A. Kenneth, Ayodele J. Omotoso, Edoise Isiwele & Iyere Irabor · International Research Journal of Oncology · 2018
Background: Cancer of the cervix is caused by a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV) which infects the uterine cervical epithelium. The Papanicolaou smear is a type of exfoliative cytology. Exfoliative cytology is the study of cells desquamated or shed from the body surfaces (...
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