WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for August, 2003: Re: 2 abnormal paps 2 normal biopsies

Re: 2 abnormal paps 2 normal biopsies

From: Hector Nemirovsky M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:50:45 -0500 (CDT)

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At Tue, 26 Aug 2003, PB wrote: >
>I had a PAP test that came back highly abnormal and then had a
>colposcopy and cervical biopsy which came back normal but showed some
>slight inflammation. I went back to the doctor about eight weeks later,
>and since the results from the PAP and the biopsy were so different,
>they decided to do another colpo and biopsy. They really put some elbow
>grease into that second one, if you know what I mean. Ouch. Anyway,
>that came back 100% OK, but, they also ran another PAP from the same
>sample that they biopsied, and that came back slightly abnormal. I'm
>supposed to go back in 3 to 6 months for another PAP, and I just dread
>it coming back abnormal and having to have another biopsy. Well, I
>guess I could handle one more, but it seems to me that this could go on
>and on. Is this a situation that anyone else has had to deal with or
>any docs out there have any input? Thanks -- much appreciated.

With 2 normal biopsys most probably they won't repeat it.

-- Hector Nemirovsky M.D. Fmr Head Obstetrics Division, Hospital Fernández, Buenos Aires, Argentina Fmr Assistant Professor in Obstetrics at Medical School, Buenos Aires University, Argentina Private Practice, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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