… The unsatisfactory Pap smear now has definition, widespread utilization, and good … The
purpose of this study was to delineate the clinical follow-up of the unsatisfactory Pap smear in …

… In conclusion, unsatisfactory Pap smears are important in patient management. Routine
specimen adequacy evaluation plays an important role in minimizing false negative reports. …

… the Pap test was poor in our study population, with only 9% ever having had a Pap test …
Our population demonstrated very poor coverage with the Pap test, which may be due to poor …

… Awareness about the Pap test was absent in our study population, none had a Pap test
done previously. Many believed that … Poor knowledge …

… the pattern of cervical Pap smear cytology at a tertiary care hospital and to correlate it with
… size in our study or due to less satisfactory sample collection facilities at some of the rural …

… often based upon conventional Pap smears, are not all correlative studies comparing Pap …
the number of “unsatisfactory” and “satisfactory but limited by” smears due to improved fixation …

… evaluated the relationship between each of these histories and the smear characteristics, viz…
to be aware of the determinants of unsatisfactory Pap test results, so that these subgroups of …

… clinicopathological correlation of Pap Smear results, and non was reported about this correlation
… for CIN or cancer cervix, or had unsatisfactory Pap smear were excluded from the study. …

… Unsatisfactory smears were noted in 44 cases (2.44%) (… Pap smear study and detection of
abnormal epithelial lesions and determination of its accuracy by cytohistological correlation in …