Difference between revisions of "Uterine cervix"

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 **An effective screening test to detect this is the ''Pap test'', which is dealt with in the ''[[gynecologic cytopathology]]'' article.
 *The work-up of a suspicious ''Pap test'' is a ''colposcopic examination'' and biopsies, which are the topic of ''this'' article.
-**"Suspicious" pap test = [[squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix|SCC]], [[HSIL]], repeated [[LSIL]], repeated [[ASCUS]], repeated [[ASC-H]].
+Indications for coloposcopic exam (based on the ''ASCCP Consensus Guidelines'' of 2001):<ref name=pmid16148248>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Dresang | first1 = LT. | title = Colposcopy: an evidence-based update. | journal = J Am Board Fam Pract | volume = 18 | issue = 5 | pages = 383-92 | month =  | year =  | doi =  | PMID = 16148248 |URL = www.jabfm.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=16148248 }}</ref>
+*[[High-grade squamous intraepithelial neoplasia]] ([[HSIL]]).
+*Repeated [[low grade squamous intraepithelial neoplasia]] ([[LSIL]]).
+*[[Atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance]] ([[ASCUS]]) and a positive [[HPV]] test.
+*[[ASC-H]].
+*[[Atypical glandular cells]] ([[AGC]]) not otherwise specified.
+*[[Adenocarcinoma in situ]] ([[AIS]]).
 ==Colposcopic examination==