On the basis of the unique subset of our database comprising patients who received a
Papanicolaou test and a cervical biopsy during the same clinic visit, clinicopathologic factors …

As part of a quality assurance study, we reviewed 223 cases of simultaneously sampled
cervical smears and biopsies that showed a significant lack of correlation for squamous …

Objective: We prospectively studied the diagnostic utility of our Bethesda system–based
cervical cytology screening program with colposcopy and biopsy as the criterion standard …

Lack of correlation between dysplastic cervicovaginal Papanicolaou (Pap) tests and
subsequent cervical biopsies raises the concern that a significant squamous intraepithelial …

Studies evaluating the routine Papanicolaou (Pap) test have traditionally used as the
reference gold standard, the diagnoses on the follow-up histologic samples. Since the latter …

Approximately 10% to 15% of cases of grade 1 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia are found to
have progressed to a high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion or higher at follow-up, and …

In order to investigate the factors contributing to cases in which the cytology and histology
reports of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) differ, we assessed the impact of careful …

To investigate the etiologies for discrepancies between cervicovaginal smear and
corresponding cervical biopsy results, 615 patients with cytologic diagnoses of dysplasia or …

Cytologic-histologic correlation (CHC) represents a documented effort to obtain and
compare, when available, gynecologic cytology reports with an interpretation of high-grade …

The current literature suggests that atypical (benign atypia or class II) Papanicolaou smears
occur at a frequency of 1.6-5.4% and are associated with a substantial rate of underlying …