Pap smear adequacy: Is our understanding satisfactory... or limited?

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 79-81

  Birdsong, George G ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX;

CERVIX UTERI; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0035137852     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0339(200102)24:2<79::AID-DC1014>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Review

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1. Clinicopathologic correlation of the unsatisfactory Papanicolaou smear
2. Relationship between the diagnosis of epithelial abnormalities and the composition of cervical smears
3. Papanicolaou smears without endocervical cells. Are they inadequate?
4. Longitudinal study of women with negative cervical smears according to endocervical status
5. Differences between Papanicolaou smears with correct and incorrect diagnoses
6. A case-control study of true-positive versus false-negative cervical smears in women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) III
7. Should we report cervical smears lacking endocervical component as unsatisfactory?
8. Accuracy and reproducibility of estimating the adequacy of the squamous component of cervicovaginal smears
9. The effect of the quality of Papanicolaou smears on the detection of cytologic abnormalities