Unsatisfactory Pap Test Results: A Critical Patient Management Problem Pre‐Analytically Addressed by the Cytopathology Laboratory
A second slide preparation significantly reduced the unsatisfactory rate of the PT. This also had a significant impact by detecting clinically significant lesions. HPV testing can also be performed on slides reclassified from unsatisfactory to ASC-US or higher.
Authors
- Abha Goyal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8876-4894)
- Susan Alperstein
- Jonas J. Heymann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6624-7116)
- Mohamad Mazen Gafeer
- Robert Appleby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8033-1923)
- Momin T. Siddiqui (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1812-8729)
- Jose‐Scarpa Carniello
Institutions
- NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- New York Hospital Queens (US)
- Presbyterian Hospital (US)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Diagnostic Cytopathology
- Published
- 2024-08-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dc.25398
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.39