Histological Correlation of Glandular Abnormalities in Cervical Liquid-Based Cytology

Table 1

Relationship between conventional smear and ThinPrep method.

	ThinPrep (TP)
		NILM	ASC-US	ASC-H	AGC	LSIL	HSIL	HSILw/FSFI	AIS	SCC	ADC	ADSQ	Total
Conventional Smear; (CS)	NILM	3985	35	1	1	33	7	0	0	0	0	0	4062
	ASC-US	47	12	0	0	10	2	0	0	0	0	0	71
	ASC-H	2	2	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	9
	AGC	5	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
	LSIL	73	17	0	0	104	27	0	0	0	0	0	221
	HSIL	5	4	0	0	19	77	2	0	5	0	0	112
	HSILw/FSFI	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
	AIS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	SCC	1	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	15	0	0	25
	ADC	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	10
	ADSQ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
	Total	4119	72	3	6	168	120	5	0	25	4	0	4522

NILM: negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy; ASC-US: atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance; ASC-H: atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; AGC: atypical glandular cells; LSIL: low-grade intraepithelial cells; HSIL: high-grade intraepithelial lesion; FSFI: HSIL features suspicious for invasion; AIS: adenocarcinoma in-situ; SCC: squamous cell carcinoma; ADC: adenocarcinoma; ADSQ: adenosquamous cell carcinoma.