Table 1.

Diagnostic-therapeutic courses for the treatment of ASC-US positive post-menopausal woman in the two arms

	1st arm					2 th arm
	women	Diagnosis LEEP	histology			women	Diagnosis E/colposcopy	Istology			LEEP
			negative	CIN2-	CIN2+			negative	CIN2-	CIN2+
HPV test +	57 (39%)	57	4 (6,8%)	37 (63,7%)	16 (28%)	47 (37,9%)	47	12 (25,5%)	15 (31,9%)	20 (42,5%)	20
*HPV test -	89 (60,1%)	0				77 (62,1%)	77	70 (90,9%)	7 (9,1%)	0	0

*using the NPV (99%) of the HPV test we considered the HPV negative women of the first arm at low risk, and they underwent a cytological follow-up; only one patient developed a HSIL lesion