Canadian Task Force
Periodic health examination, 1995 update: 1. Screening for human papillomavirus infection in asymptomatic women. Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination
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Abstract
To develop recommendations for practising physicians on the advisability of screening for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in asymptomatic women.
Visual inspection, Papanicolaou testing, colposcopy or cervicography, use of HPV group-specific antigen, DNA hybridization, dot blot technique, Southern blot technique or polymerase chain reaction followed by physical or chemical therapeutic intervention.