"Vaginal Smears" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Collection of pooled secretions of the posterior vaginal fornix for cytologic examination.
| Descriptor ID |
D014626
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.500.384.100.800 E01.370.225.998.054.800 E01.370.378.900 E04.074.800 E05.200.500.384.100.800 E05.200.998.054.800 E05.242.384.100.800
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| Concept/Terms |
Vaginal Smears- Vaginal Smears
- Smear, Vaginal
- Smears, Vaginal
- Vaginal Smear
- Cervical Smears
- Cervical Smear
- Smear, Cervical
- Smears, Cervical
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vaginal Smears" by people in Profiles.
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Kung TH, Gordon JR, Abdullahi A, Barve A, Chaudhari V, Kosambiya JK, Kumar A, Gamit S, Wells KJ. "My husband says this: If you are alive, you can be someone…": Facilitators and barriers to cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV in India. Cancer Causes Control. 2019 Apr; 30(4):365-374.
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Vamos CA, Lockhart E, Vázquez-Otero C, Thompson EL, Proctor S, Wells KJ, Daley EM. Abnormal pap tests among women living in a Hispanic migrant farmworker community: A narrative of health literacy. J Health Psychol. 2018 10; 23(12):1622-1634.
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Paskett ED, Dudley D, Young GS, Bernardo BM, Wells KJ, Calhoun EA, Fiscella K, Patierno SR, Warren-Mears V, Battaglia TA. Impact of Patient Navigation Interventions on Timely Diagnostic Follow Up for Abnormal Cervical Screening. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2016 Jan; 25(1):15-21.