title: The Pap smear: a victim of its own success?
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Garden City Hospital, Garden City, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Carmen K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Steigman
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Vernick
mesh_terms: D004496:Education, Continuing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal / Q000191:economics; D008403:Mass Screening; D065006:Papanicolaou Test; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000821:virology; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*