RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Screening for cervical dysplasia in department of genitourinary medicine.
JF Genitourinary Medicine
JO Genitourin Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 255
OP 258
DO 10.1136/sti.64.4.255
VO 64
IS 4
A1 I A Tait
A1 A B Alawattegama
A1 E Rees
YR 1988
UL http://sti.bmj.com/content/64/4/255.abstract
AB In 632 patients attending a sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic who were colposcoped because they were in certain high risk groups for cervical neoplasia, and irrespective of cytological findings, 13 out of 51 biopsied had false negative cytology results. Human papilloma virus (HPV) was the most important sexually transmitted agent associated with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), but HPV was also present in most patients with false negative (11/13) and false positive (11/14) cytology results. Screening by colposcopy, as well as cervical cytology, is therefore mandatory and must be available for certain STD clinic patients.