A Pap smear, also known as a Papanicolaou test or Pap test, is a procedure that checks for abnormal cells on thecervix.1It is named after George Papanicolaou, M.D., who is credited for developing the Pap smear.2The Pap smear drastically transformed how early cervical cancer can be detecte...
SMEARING THE PAP SMEAR Conclusion: Pap slides are often kept only as long as the law requires. ...Bogdanich, Walt
An analysis from a randomized study has suggested that a larger percentage of Class III Pap smears appears among Prentif cervical cap users three months after initiation of use of the method than among diaphragm users. This suggestion has been the basis of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
What should be done when the Pap smear report is 'inconclusive, possible adenocarcinoma in situ'. Comment in Pathology. 2003 Dec;35(6):541. Comment on Pathology. 2003 Jun;35(3):198-203. Saville,Marion - 《Pathology》 被引量: 1发表: 2003年 What should be done when the Pap smear ...
Pap smear Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Wikipedia Related to Pap smear:Cervical cancer (păp) n. A test for cancer, especially of the female genital tract, in which a smear of exfoliated cells is specially stained and examined under a microscope for pathological changes. Also calledPap test. ...
Computer records were also searched for patients who had a Pap smear result consisting of suspicious or positive for AIS or adenocarcinoma (AC) with subsequent tissue diagnosis during the same time. The histologic and cytologic findings were correlated. RESULTS: One hundred percent of patients with ...
(The FDAfirst approvedan HPV vaccine for women and girls between 9 and 26 years old in 2006.) With fewer actual cases of cervical cancer in the population due to vaccination, the Pap test's positive predictive value — which is the chance that a person with a positive test result ...
What an LGSIL Pap Smear Result Means HSIL/CIN 2-3:High grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) are more likely to become cervical cancer than LSIL. However, many of these lesions still regress on their own. Carcinoma in situ (CIS) is the most serious form of HSIL and the one most...
As the DVI method has higher sensitivity and positive predictive value than Pap smear, it could be used as a useful method beside the Pap smear. 展开 关键词: Cervical cancer direct visual inspection Pap smear DOI: 10.4103/0300-1652.149168 被引量: 4 ...
Semi-Automatic Segmentation and Classification of Pap Smear Cells Cytologic screening has been widely used for detecting the cervical cancers. In this study, a semiautomatic PC-based cellular image analysis system was dev... YF Chen,PC Huang,KC Lin,... - 《IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health...