Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance: Bethesda Classification and Association with Human Papillomavirus

Table 2

Principal colposcopic findings in patients with an initial diagnosis of ASCUS who, upon review, were reclassified as normal/inflammatory cytology, probably reactive ASCUS, probably neoplastic ASCUS, ASC-US, and ASC-H.

	Cytology
Colposcopy	Normal/inflammatory 𝑁 (%)	ASCUS
		Probably reactive 𝑁(%)	Probably neoplastic 𝑁(%)	ASC-US 𝑁 (%)	ASC-H 𝑁(%)
Normal findings	17 (56.6)	23 (60.5)	9 (28.1)	32 (51.6)	0
Abnormal findings Major*	0	0	6 (18.7)*	1 (1.6)	5 (62.5)**
Minor	8 (26.6)	9 (23.6)	15 (46.8)	21 (33.9)	3 (37.5)
Unsatisfactory	5 (16.6)	6 (15.8)	2 (6.2)	8 (12.9)	0
Total cases by group	30	38	32	62	8

* 𝑃=.0020 and 𝑃=.0018 for the presence of abnormal and major abnormal colposcopic findings, respectively, versus the probably reactive ASCUS group, Fisher’s exact test.
** 𝑃=.0017 and 𝑃<.0001 for the presence of abnormal and major abnormal colposcopic findings, respectively, versus the ASC-US group, Fisher’s exact test.