… 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 …

… 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 …

… to an unsatisfactory Papanicolaou test (UPT) result. Preanalytical factors include improper
collection techniques, poor … We correlated HPV statuses at the time of initial UPT results with …

… patients who received a Papanicolaou test and a cervical biopsy … Cytohistologic correlation
was considered to be present … All Pap tests in this analysis were definitionally satisfactory for …

… 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 …

… challenges of reparative changes include both unsatisfactory (series 001) and SIL or carcinoma
(series 200) in Table 1. Discordant responses of unsatisfactory were absent or extremely …

… Pap smear, in a tertiary hospital of a developing country, and to carry out a clinicopathological
and … analysis for establishing the pattern of epithelial cell abnormality in a Pap smear. …