Atypical or Suspicious Cervical Smears

Abstract

In a study of 26,745 screening examinations, 434 patients with atypical and 95 patients with suspicious cervical cytosmears were identified. With specific antivaginitis treatment 84% of the findings from smears reverted from atypical to negative; patients with second smears showing atypical results were subjected to biopsies that yielded cancer in 18 and dysplasia in 26 of 57 patients. Biopsy specimens verified cancer in 40 and dysplasia in 26 of the 79 patients with initial suspicious smears. Repeat smears taken immediately prior to biopsies were false-negative in 19 of these patients.