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Obstetrics & Gynecology 1969;34:30-33
© 1969 by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
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The Vaginal Irrigation Smear

RICHARD H. ELESH, MD, FACOG, ROBERT R. J. HILKER, MD and LEON A. CARROW, MD, FACOG

From the Departments of Medicine and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Medical School and Chicago Wesley Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 111

Abstract

An 85% return rate of vaginal irrigation smears, 93% of which were technically satisfactory, from 2867 women who recently had been subjected to cervical-scrape smears permitted comparison of the two methods. There was a similar false-negative rate (12–18%) with each type of smear. Performing four-quadrant cervical biopsies upon 86 patients (2.2%) who had at least Class III smears, the authors uNC.overed 5 instaNC.es of severe dysplasia, 24 instaNC.es of in-situ carcinoma, and 5 instaNC.es of minimal or questionable invasion.






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