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Gynecol Obstet Invest
; 59(1): 41-2, 2005.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15452387
RESUMO
A 65-year-old woman had on her own initiative three cervical smears taken at very short intervals. The second smear was taken only 1 day after the first one. It contained necrotic cellular material with atypia due to the scraping on the day before; it was at first mistakenly interpreted as showing malignant features. This led to the performance of various diagnostic procedures, and a considerably greater cost for the medical insurance system.