Cervico-vaginal smear results for cervical cancer screening in a secondary medical center

squamous intra-epithelial lesion (LSIL) were To assess the efficacy, cytopathologic diagnostic detected in 98 (1.4%), 25 (0.3%), 12 (0.2%) and criteria, and clinical importance of our smear 11 (0.2) patients, respectively. The most reported results. cause of inflamation was bacterial vaginosis and Methods its incidence was 22.9%. The conventional smear reports of 7167 patients Conclusions whose smear specimens were assessed at the The unsatisfactory result rate was 6.7 % and total Pathology Department of Zonguldak Maternity intra-epithelial cell abnormality rate was 2.1% in and Children's Hospital in Turkey from June 2006 our study. Even though our unsatisfactory result to June 2010 were analyzed retrospectively. All of rate was found to be relatively high in our study, the samples were evaluated with Bethesda III we believe this percentage can be decreased by 2001 system. improving the smear technique, taking care of the Results transportation of the specimen, and adding The smear results were determined to be adequate clinical information of the patients. satisfactory in 4509 (63.0%) patients. Atypical (Rawal Med J 2012;37:285-287). squamous cell of undetermined significance