Correlating Pap Smear Results and Colposcopy-Directed Large Loop Excision of the Transformation Zone Histopathology in HIV-Infected and HIV-Uninfected Women: A Case-Control Study in South Africa

Table 1

Correlation between cytology and histopathology of colposcopy-directed LLETZ: HIV-uninfected versus HIV-infected women.

	HIV uninfected	HIV infected
	𝑛=399	𝑛=389
Concordant
HGSIL = CIN2+	249 (88.6%)	262 (89.1%)
LGSIL = CIN ≤ 1	13 (4.6%)	24 (8.2%)
Pap (+) = ICC*	19 (6.8%)	8 (2.7%)
Total	281 (65.7–74.9%) *	294 (71.0–79.8%) *
Discordant
HGSIL = CIN ≤ 1	84 (71.2%)	79 (83.2%)
LGSIL = CIN2+	5 (4.2%)	8 (8.4%)
LGSIL = ICC	6 (5.1%)	5 (5.3%)
Pap (+) = CIN ≤ 2+	3 (2.5%)	2 (2.1%)
Pap (−) = CIN2+	5 (4.2%)	—
Pap (−) = ICC	15 (12.7%)	1 (1.0%)
Total	118 (25.1–34.3%) *	95 (20.2–29.1%) *

∗95% confidence intervals.