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Re: PAPSMEAR: ASCUS but no HPV test could be done

From: Mary (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:14:12 -0600 (CST)


At Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Mary wrote: >
>I'm confused as to how it's possible to have a satisfactory sample of
>cells to do a Pap test,and have a subsequent ASCUS result, yet the
>report then states that there was "insufficient cellularity" to do the
>usual immediate follow-up HPV test. This was a ThinPrep test, which I
>understood one of the benefits as being the ability to do an immediate
>HPV follow-up, eliminating the need for a second Pap test. How much
>accuracy can I place on the ASCUS result?

No one? Not one person can explain this to me?




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