CYTOLOGY AND COLPOSCOPY IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF OUTPATIENTS WITH CERVICAL INTRA-EPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 24  (1) , 1-4
Abstract
Consecutive outpatients (100) seen in a colposcopy clinic had one or more Papanicolaou smears that suggested cervical atypia, dysplasia or carcinoma in situ. Of these 100 patients, 7% underwent a diagnostic cervical cone biopsy; 11% more had therapeutic conization. The accuracy of colposcopic examination with directed cervical biopsy within 1 level (under or over) of histologic findings was 88%; the cytologic accuracy within 1 level of histologic findings was 83%. The study showed that patients with cervical atypia at cytologic examination had dysplasia and carcinoma in situ at subsequent colposcopic cervical examination with directed biopsy.

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