Repeating the Pap test was of little value. Fifteen percent of women with low-grade changes on the referral smear had biopsy proven high-grade change. There was little difference in biopsy proven high-grade change in women referred with an 'abnormal smear of uncertain significance' (23%) or ...
Incidence of Pap smear based cytological abnormalities in a low risk group of Pakistani women attending gynaecology out patients Objective: This study was carried out to ascertain the incidence of abnormal Pap smears among Pakistani women. ... Z Noreen,M Zafar - 《International Journal of Gynecology...
The category HPV infection could include a range of diagnoses from HPV DNA detectable only by PCR without cytological abnormal- ities (latent HPV infection) to CIN-1 lesions indistinguishable from koilocytic atypia, called low-grade squamous intra-epithelial lesions (LSIL) or productive HPV ...
High prevalence of abnormal Pap smears among young women co-infected with HIV in rural South Africa--implications for cervical cancer screening policies in high HIV prevalence populations Importantly, both high- and low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) were detected on Pap smear testing, ...
Management of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance and low-grade squamous intra-epithelial lesion by human papillomavirus testing Cervical cytological terminology varies from country to country. In the USA, the Pap smear is reported using the Bethesda system. The abnormal morphologica... ...
Abnormal epithelial cells were reported in 5174 women (5.44%). Of these epithelial abnormalities, the majority were low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions in 4144 women (4.36%). Other abnormalities included atypical squamous cells in 378 women (0.40%), high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions ...
Are there specific cervical cancer biomarkers that could help to improve the triage of abnormal Pap smears? January 29, 2014 Human Papillomavirus Prevalence in Invasive Anal Cancers in the United States Before Vaccine Introduction How prevalent is HPV in anal cancer patients, and could the vaccine...
Women were referred to colposcopy if they had genital warts or an abnormal high-grade Pap smear, or they had an abnormal Pap smear classified as borderline or low-grade and tested positive for high-risk HPV infection. All colposcopy examinations were done at the Klinikum Wolfsburg, the single ...
Endocervical curettage If a woman has a positive Pap test, but no abnormal areas are observed with colposcopy, there may be a lesion in the cervical canal. In this case, the endo- cervix can be examined with a special speculum and a sample of cells can be obtained with an endo- ...
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