Table 10 below shows the summary for all sites of the descriptive diagnosis for all Bethesda
System categories.
Descriptive Diagnosis
Number of Patients: 6747
Benign Cellular Changes:
Infection:
Trichomonas Vaginalis
Candida spp.
Coccobacilli
Actinomyces spp.
Herpes
Other
Reactive Cellular Changes
Associated with:
Inflammation
Atrophic Vaginitis
Radiation
Other
Epithelial Cell
Abnormalities:
Squamous Cell:
ASCUS
favor reactive
favor neoplastic
undetermined
LSIL
HSIL
Carcinoma
Glandular Cell:
Benign Endometrial cells in
Postmenopausal Women
Atypical Glandular Cells
(AGUS)
favor reactive
favor neoplastic
undetermined
Endocervical
Adenocarcinoma
Note: Some patients had more than one diagnostic subcategory.
Table 10: Summary of Descriptive Diagnosis
ThinPrep
N
1592
136
406
690
2
3
155
353
32
2
25
1159
501
128
161
213
469
167
1
7
21
9
0
12
0
Conventional
%
N
23.6
1591
2.0
185
6.0
259
10.2
608
0.0
3
0.0
8
2.3
285
5.2
385
0.5
48
0.0
1
0.4
37
17.2
1077
7.4
521
1.9
131
2.4
140
3.2
250
7.0
367
2.5
167
0.0
3
0.1
10
0.3
9
0.1
4
0.0
3
0.2
2
0.0
1
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%
23.6
2.7
3.8
9.0
0.0
0.1
4.2
5.7
0.7
0.0
0.5
16.0
7.7
1.9
2.1
3.7
5.4
2.5
0.0
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
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