title: Appraisal of self-collected cervical specimens in cytologic screening of uterine cancer.
abstract: Cytologic specimens were collected simultaneously by three methods on 122 patients with cervical neoplastic lesions: self-irrigated collection, self-scraped collection and physician-scraped collection. In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens. There was a serious defect in the detection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia by the self-irrigation method. In carcinoma in situ and dysplasia, the self-scraping method was considerably better than the self-irrigation method. In mass screening of 89,206 females, the self-scraping positive detection rates were closer to the physican-scraping results than the self-irrigation method.
mesh_terms: D002278:Carcinoma in Situ / Q000175:diagnosis; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D002578:Uterine Cervical Dysplasia / Q000175:diagnosis; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000379:methods*