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Colpomicroscopic studies of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia
Author(s) -
Richart Ralph M.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(196603)19:3<395::aid-cncr2820190313>3.0.co;2-o
Subject(s) - medicine , papanicolaou stain , dysplasia , cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , prospective cohort study , papanicolaou test , gynecology , radiology , pathology , cervical cancer , cancer
This paper reports colpomicroscopic observations on 750 patients with abnormal Papanicolaou smears and delineates the diagnostic criteria used in colpomicroscopy. The detection rate in a prospective series of 100 women was 84% and the diagnostic accuracy 68%. Of special interest in this study was a group of patients who had a minute area of mild dysplasia found on the squamous side of the squamo‐columnar junction. Each of these areas was unifocal and was associated with a smear in which the abnormal cells were derived from the superficial and upper intermediate layers.