PAP TEST. PERFORMANCE AND LIMITS

• Published in: Analele științifice ale Universității "Al. I. Cuza" din Iași. Serie nouă. Genetică și biologie moleculară Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 163 - 167
• Main Authors: Crauciuc, Eduard, Toma, Ovidiu, Neacsu, Dorin, Crauciuc, Dragos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.2016
• Subjects: Papillomaviridae
• ISSN: 1582-3571

Harvesting the smears and the cytodiagnostic interpretation represents the first step in diagnosing the pre- invasive pathology of the cervix. The study lot was made of 1476 patients who came for a specialty consult in two medical units in Iasi, in the period of time between 2010 and 2015 and who were harvested Pap smears. The data was statistically processed in order to draw conclusions about the incidence of cervical benign pathology and the usefulness of its detection through this test. If we refer to the whole lot, the cytological results are satisfactory: 83% smears are within normal limits, 10.1% ASCUS, 2.7% L-SIL, 0.8% H-SIL. From all the feminine genital neoplasia, the cervical cancer is the easiest to detect, with low costs, as it benefits from very effective early diagnostic methods: cytology, HPV testing, colposcopy, and biopsy. We estimate that 50-75% of the results that are false negative are due to the harvesting errors.