Volume : 2, Issue : 1, January - 2013

Cytological Findings of Conventional Cervical Papanicolaou Smears in a Tertiary care Hospital

Dr. Kaushik Saha, Dr. Moumita Sengupta, Dr. Chetna J. Mistry

Abstract :

Cervical cancer is the second leading cancer in the women worldwide. The present study was conducted to know the clinicopathological importance of conventional Papanicolaou (Pap) smears for the diagnosis of premalignant and malignant lesions of the cervix.A prospective study was designed to examine cervical smear from 340 patients attending Gynaecology and Obstetrics outpatient door in our tertiary care hospital during the period of four months. Smears obscured with blood and inflammatory cells were diagnosed as unsatisfactory smear. Abnormal smears were reported according to the 2001 Bethesda system. 172 cases (50.6%) of NILM revealed non–specific inflammation (29.4%) as the major finding. Low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion was the most common epithelial abnormality with prevalence of 3.5% (12 cases of 35 cases of epithelial abnormality). Papanicolaou (Pap) smear is simple, quick, and painless screening method for early diagnosis and subsequent reduction in the progression to invasive carcinoma.