Pap smear with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 192-196

  Ghaemmaghami, Fatemeh ^a   Ensani, Fereshteh ^a   Behtash, Nadereh ^a   Hosseini Nejad, Ebrahim ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance; Cervical biopsy; Colposcopy; Papanicolaou (Pap) smear; Squamous intraepithelial lesion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL SQUAMOUS CELLS OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE; CANCER INVASION; COLPOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE;

EID: 21344446814     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. DiSaiaPJ, Creasman WT. Preinvasive disease of the cervix in Creasman. In: DiSaia PJ, Creasman WT, eds. Clinical Gynecologic Oncology. 6th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002: 1-33.
2. Malik SN, Wilkinson EJ. Drew PA, Bennett BB, Hardt NS. Do qualifiers of ASCUS distinguish between low- and high-risk patients? Acta Cytol. 1999; 43: 376-380.
3. Michael C. Preinvasive Disease in Practical Gynecology Oncology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: William and Wilkins. 2000; 271-375.
4. Fallani MG, Penna C, Fambrini M, Marchionni M. Cervical cytologic reports of ASCUS and LSIL. Cytohistological correlation and implication for management [in Italian]. Minerva Ginecol. 2002; 54: 263-269.
5. Gerber S, De Grandi P, Petignat P, Mihaescu A. Delaloye JF. Colposcopic evaluation after a repeat atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) smear. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2001; 75: 251-255.
6. Wright TC Jr, Cox JT, Massad LS, Twiggs LB, Wilkinson EJ. ASCCP-Sponsored Consensus Conference. 2001 Consensus Guidelines for the management of women with cervical cytological abnormalities. JAMA. 2002; 287: 2120-2129.
7. Wright TC, Sun XW, Koulos J. Comparison of management algorithms for the evaluation of women with low-grade cytologic abnormalities. Obstet Gynecol. 1995; 85: 202-210.
8. Lonky NM, Navarre GL, Saunders S, Sadeghi M, Wolde-Tsadik G. Low-grade Papanicolaou smears and the Bethesda system: a prospective cytohistopathologic analysis. Obstet Gynecol. 1995; 85: 716-720.
9. Kinney WK, Manos MM, Hurley LB, Ransley JE. Where's the high-grade cervical neoplasia? The importance of minimally abnormal Papanicolaou diagnoses. Obstet Gynecol. 1998; 91: 973-976.
10. Cox JT, Lorincz AT, Schiffman MH, Sherman ME, Cullen A, Kurman RJ. Human papillomavirus testing by hybrid capture appears to be useful in triaging women with a cytologic diagnosis of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1995; 172: 946-954.
11. Wright TC Jr, Lorincz A, Ferris DG, et al. Reflex human papillomavirus deoxyribonucleic acid testing in women with abnormal Papanicolaou smears. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1998; 178: 962-966.
12. Solomon D, Schiffman M, Tarone R; ALTS Study Group. Comparison of three management strategies for patients with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance: baseline results from a randomized trial. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2001; 93: 293-299.
13. Quddus MR, Sung CJ, Steinhoff MM, Lauchlan SC, Singer DB, Hutchinson ML. Atypical squamous metaplastic cells: reproducibility, outcome, and diagnostic features on ThinPrep Pap test. Cancer. 2001; 93: 16-22.
14. Jones BA, Novis DA. Follow-up of abnormal gynecologic cytology: a college of American pathologists Q-probes study of 16,132 cases from 306 laboratories. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2000; 124: 665-671.
15. Lonky NM, Sadeghi M, Tsadik GW, Petitti D. The clinical significance of the poor correlation of cervical dysplasia and cervical malignancy with referral cytologic results. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1999; 181: 560-566.
16. Melnikow J, Nuovo J, Willan AR, Chan BK, Howell LP. Natural history of cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions: a metaanalysis. Obstet Gynecol. 1998; 92: 727-735.
17. Raab SS, Steiner AL, Hornberger J. The cost-effectiveness of treating women with a cervical vaginal smear diagnosis of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1998; 179: 411-420.
18. Ergeneli MH, Duran EH, Ergin T, Demirhan B, Erdogan M. Atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance. Clinical experience in a Turkish University Hospital. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2001; 96: 108-110.
19. Mitchell MF, Schottenfeld D, Tortolero-Luna G, Cantor SB, Richards-Kortum R. Colposcopy for the diagnosis of squamous intraepithelial lesions: a metaanalysis. Obstet Gynecol. 1998; 91: 626-631.