Objectives: To determine the degree of interobserver variation in the assessment of
conventional cervical smear adequacy as defined by The Bethesda System (TBS) 2001, and …

Variation in the assessment of adequacy in cervical smears Objective: To assess the
interobserver reproducibility of the diagnosis ofadequacy'of cervical smears according to the …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the correlation between cervical smear quality and the rate of
detecting significant epithelial abnormalities. STUDY DESIGN: Smear quality was assessed …

Criteria for assessing adequacy of cervicovaginal smears according to the Bethesda System
include cellular composition and quantity, specimen preservation, fixation, and absence of …

A set of 300 vaginal smears was interpreted by 13 cytologists from six European
laboratories, who were requested to report inadequate and suboptimal smears. the set had …

Abstract In the Bethesda System for reporting cervicovaginal cytology results, 1 criterion for
smear adequacy is an adequate squamous component. The accuracy of a cytologist's …

We compared the interobserver reproducibility of estimating the adequacy of the squamous
component of conventional Papanicolaou (Pap) smears using traditional and newly …

Intraobserver and interobserver variability in assessing the quality of cervical smears, as
measured by the presence or absence of endocervical columnar cells and squamous …

Should the laboratory assess the sampling adequacy of cervical smears? The results of a
questionnaire answered by 14 out of the 18 NHS laboratories in Scotland reporting cervical …

To examine the influence of sample cellularity and the presence of endocervical columnar
cells on the detection of cervical dysplasia, Papanicolaou (Pap) smears taken from patients …