Colposcopic assessment of the accuracy of cervical cytology screening

JA Giles, E Hudson, J Crow, D Williams, P Walker - Br Med J (Clin Res Ed), 1988 - bmj.com
Two hundred asymptomatic women in a general practice were screened both cytologically
and colposcopically for evidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. The prevalence …

Screening for cervical cancer: a new scope for general practitioners? Results of the first year of colposcopy in general practice.

J Chomet - Br Med J (Clin Res Ed), 1987 - bmj.com
A survey was carried out over one year of all the women who attended a colposcopy clinic in
a general practice. During the year 1254 women underwent cytological screening in the …

Impact of introduction of colposcopy to a district general hospital.

A Singer, P Walker, SK Tay, J Dyson - Br Med J (Clin Res Ed), 1984 - bmj.com
During the first 18 months of operation of a new colposcopy clinic, established in a district
general hospital, 608 women were seen. Most (568 (93.0%] were referred from within the …

Organisation and results of the cervical cytology screening programme in British Columbia, 1955-85

GH Anderson, DA Boyes, JL Benedet, JC Le Riche… - Br Med J (Clin Res …, 1988 - bmj.com
A screening programme to detect preinvasive carcinoma of the cervix was started in British
Columbia in 1949. Since 1970 the number of women who have been screened at least once …

Are patients with abnormal cervical smears adequately managed?

JM Elwood, RE Cotton, J Johnson, GM Jones… - Br Med J (Clin Res …, 1984 - bmj.com
The outcome was assessed for all 1062 women in Nottingham who had a first report of
abnormal cervical cytology in 1981. Satisfactory follow up could be found for only 628 (59%) …

Abnormal cervical smears: are we in for an epidemic?

MR Wolfendale, S King, MMD Usherwood - Br Med J (Clin Res Ed), 1983 - bmj.com
A retrospective study was conducted to examine the pattern of a disturbing increase in
abnormal cervical smears in one health district. Past records over fifteen years (1965-79) …

Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia III. An estimate of screening error rates and optimal screening interval.

S Cecchini, D Palli, A Casini - Acta cytologica, 1985 - europepmc.org
The detection rates of grade III cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN III) in women at the
initial and subsequent screenings were studied in Florence for the period 1979 to 1982 to …

The accuracy of colposcopically directed biopsy in patients with suspected intraepithelial neoplasia of the cervix

W Kirkup, A Singer, AS Hill - BJOG: An International Journal of …, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
We compared the histological diagnoses of premalignant/malignant lesions of the cervix
obtained examining colposcopically directed biopsy material from 201 outpatients with those …

The abnormal cervical smear.

A Singer - British Medical Journal (Clinical research ed.), 1986 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Squamous cervical cancer (which comprises 95% of all cervical cancers) is completely
preventable if its precancerous stages of dysplasia, carcinoma in situ (now called cervical …

Relation of abnormal cytological smears and carcinoma of cervix uteri to husband's occupation

J Wakefield, R Yule, A Smith, AM Adelstein - Br Med J, 1973 - bmj.com
An analysis of the cytological records of almost 300,000 women in the Manchester area
shows that the rates of positive/suspicious findings from population screening are highly …