Table 1.
Histopathology diagnoses for 13,115 colposcopically-guided biopsy examinations with both endocervical curettage (ECC) and cervical biopsy specimens processed at Alberta Hospital January 1, 2003-December 31, 2007*
| Histopathology result of cervical biopsy | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Histopathology result of ECC |
Unsatisfactory | <CIN2 | CIN2 | CIN3 | Cancer | Total | ||||||
| N | col % | N | col % | N | col % | N | col % | N | col % | N | col % | |
| Unsatisfactory | 6 | 3.8 | 464 | 4.4 | 44 | 3.2 | 40 | 4.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 554 | 4.2 |
| <CIN2 | 150 | 94.3 | 10,052 | 94.4 | 1,184 | 85.9 | 612 | 66.7 | 1 | 6.7 | 11,999 | 91.5 |
| CIN2 | 3 | 1.9 | 86 | 0.7 | 127 | 8.3 | 44 | 4.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 260 | 2.0 |
| CIN3 | 0 | 0.0 | 43 | 0.4 | 23 | 1.5 | 221 | 24.1 | 7 | 46.7 | 294 | 2.2 |
| Cancer | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 7 | 46.7 | 8 | 0.1 |
| Total (row %) | 159 | 1.2 | 10,645 | 81.2 | 1,378 | 10.5 | 918 | 7.0 | 15 | 0.1 | 13,115 | 100.0 |
*
Lightly shaded cells indicate a more severe diagnosis based on ECC, and darkly shaded cells indicate a more severe diagnosis based on cervical biopsy, among women with satisfactory ECC and cervical biopsies.