title: Cervical cancer detected by cervicography in a patient with negative cervical cytology.
abstract: The existence of false negative cervical cytology is well recognized. Cervicography was introduced in part to minimize the incidence of false negative smears, but its use has been controversial. A case is presented of a patient with occult cervical cancer whose initial Papanicolaou smear was atypical (class II) and follow-up smear was negative. The patient's cancer was detected by cervicography. Detection of the patient's disease would have been delayed were it not for cervicography.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D065006:Papanicolaou Test; D011859:Radiography; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014626:Vaginal Smears