Table 7. Comparison of worst histological diagnosis among sites diagnosed as positive by colposcopy with worst overall histological diagnosis for the 320 Houston diagnostic patients with a negative study Papanicolaou smear diagnosis.
| Worst histological diagnosis among positive colpo sites | Worst histological diagnosis among all colpo sites (%, 95% CI): | Total no. of patients | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | LSIL | HSIL | Cancer | |||||
| No colpo positive sites | 155 | (68, 61–74) | 36 | (44, 34–56) | 1 | (9, 0.5–43) | 0 | 192 |
| Normal | 73 | (32, 26–39) | 18 | (22, 14–33) | 1 | (9, 0.5–43) | 0 | 92 |
| LSIL | 27 | (33, 23–45) | 1 | (9, 0.5–43) | 0 | 28 | ||
| HSIL | 8 | (73, 39–93) | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Cancer | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Total no. of patients | 228 | 81 | 11 | 0 | 320 | |||
LSIL, Low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions; HSIL, high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions; CI, confidence interval
No colpo positive sites, all patient sites diagnosed as normal by colposcopy.