Association between cervical lesion grade and micronucleus frequency in the Papanicolaou test

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between the frequency of micronuclei (MN) and the cellular changes detected in the conventional Papanicolaou test. One hundred and seventy-four Papanicolaou test smears with cellular changes were examined. MN screening was done in cytopathologica...

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Main Authors: Caroline Tanski Bueno, Cláudia Maria Dornelles da Silva, Regina Bones Barcellos, Juliana da Silva, Carla Rossana dos Santos, João Evangelista Sampaio Menezes, Honório Sampaio Menezes, Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2014-09-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572014000400004&lng=en&tlng=en