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Table 12: Summary of Specimen Adequacy Results
Specimen Adequacy
Number of Patients: 7223
Satisfactory
Satisfactory for Evaluation
but Limited by:
Air-Drying Artifact
Thick Smear
Endocervical Component
Absent
Scant Squamous Epithelial
Component Obscuring
Blood Obscuring
Inflammation No Clinical
History Cytolysis
Other
Unsatisfactory for Evaluation:
Air-Drying Artifact
Thick Smear
Endocervical Component
Absent
Scant Squamous Epithelial
Component Obscuring
Blood Obscuring
Inflammation No Clinical
History Cytolysis
Other
Note: Some patients had more than one subcategory.
ThinPrep
SAT
SBLB
UNSAT
TOTAL
SAT=Satisfactory, SBLB=Satisfactory But Limited By,
UNSAT=Unsatisfactory
ThinPrep
N
5656
1431
1
9
1140
150
55
141
12
19
10
136
0
0
25
106
23
5
0
0
31
Table 13: Specimen Adequacy Results
Conventional
SAT SBLB
4316 1302
722 665
63 41
5101 2008
Conventional
% N
78.3 5101
19.8 2008
0.0 136
0.1 65
15.8 681
2.1 47
0.8 339
2.0 1008
0.2 6
0.3 119
0.1 26
1.9 114
0.0 13
0.0 7
0.3 11
1.5 47
0.3 58
0.1 41
0.0 0
0.0 4
0.4 9
UNSAT TOTAL
38 5656
44 1431
32 136
114 7223
MAN-04008-001 Rev. 001
%
70.6
27.8
1.9
0.9
9.4
0.7
4.7
14.0
0.1
1.6
0.4
1.6
0.2
0.1
0.2
0.7
0.8
0.6
0.0
0.1
0.1
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