The 2001 Bethesda System for Reporting Cervical Cytology recommends reporting benign
exfoliated endometrial cells in women age 40 and older, and a review of the literature …

Objective To determine the significance of cytologically normal endometrial cells in
cervicovaginal (CV) smears from postmenopausal women over age 55 years. Study design …

OBJECTIVE: No consensus exists regarding evaluation of asymptomatic premenopausal
women with benign endometrial cells (BECs) identified on cervical cytology. We determined …

The success of the routine Papanicolaou (pap) smear in reducing the incidence and
mortality of cervical cancer has been chronicled extensively. Unfortunately, endometrial …

A retrospective study was conducted to assess and confirm the significance of normal-
appearing endometrial cells detected in cervical cytologic smears in the second half of the …

Objective To assess the significance of benign exfoliated endometrial epithelial or stromal
cells on cervicovaginal Pap smears obtained from postmenopausal women not receiving …

Objective. The aim of this study is to assess the significance of normal endometrial cells
identified in screening Pap smears from asymptomatic postmenopausal women taking …

Objectives To estimate the prevalence of normal endometrial cells (NECs) and the
proportion of NECs associated with significant endometrial pathology in conventional and …

One hundred eighty-eight women who had endometrial cells on cervical cytologic
specimens during the secretary phase or in the postmenopausal period were studied …

Our objective was to determine if the finding of benign endometrial cells on a Papanicolaou
(Pap) smear of a postmenopausal woman is associated with endometrial/uterine pathology …