Re: 6 wk check up

From: Kathi Wilson (wilsonk@gtn.on.ca)
Mon Jul 24 07:00:25 2000


RModugno@aol.com wrote:

> Ofcourse they come back abnormal! Many will at six weeks postpartum!

I've often heard this said. Yet, we do the vast majority of our Paps at the (for us) six - seven week discharge visit, and rarely have an abnormal result. Sometimes, (but not that frequently) the cyto will comment that there is benign postpartum inflammatory effect, but we've had maybe a couple of ASCUS, a couple of LGSIL and, I think, two HGSIL in the hundreds of women we've done.

What would account for this difference? Is it laboratory difference? (BTW,. we are dealing w/ a very diverse population, so it's not because we're dealing with nice, monogamous, healthy women all the time, either....).

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Kathi Wilson, RM
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