Table 1. Total number of women with negative cervical biopsy and later histologically confirmed CIN2+ by cytological result of post-colposcopy cytology.
| Follow-up cytology | Number of women | Number of women with CIN2+ | PPV1) (%) | 95% CI |
| NIML2) | 304 | 17 | 5.6 | 3.0, 8.2 |
| ASC-US | 73 | 19 | 26.0 | 16.0, 36.1 |
| LSIL | 66 | 27 | 40.9 | 29.0, 52.8 |
| ASC-H | 44 | 33 | 75.0 | 62.2, 87.8 |
| HSIL | 33 | 28 | 84.4 | 72.6, 97.1 |
| Total | 520 | 124 | 23.8 | 20.1, 27.5 |
1)
PPV = Positive predictive value for CIN2+.
2)
NIML = Negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy.