Table 3.
Difference in sample inadequacy between liquid-based cytology and smear cytology
| Ref. | Year | Country | No. of patients |
Inadequacy, n (%) |
LBC type | |
| LBC | SC | |||||
| LeBlanc et al[13] | 2010 | America | 50 | 50 (12.00) | 50 (0.00) | ThinPrep |
| Lee et al[12] | 2011 | Korea | 58 | 58 (34.48) | 58 (13.79) | ThinPrep |
| Yeon et al[10] | 2018 | Korea | 48 | 48 (41.67) | 48 (12.50) | CellprepPlus |
| Chun et al[9] | 2019 | China | 338 | 169 (1.78) | 169 (5.32) | SurePath |
| Zhou et al[7] | 2019 | China | 514 | 514 (2.33) | 514 (4.28) | SurePath |
LBC: Liquid-based cytology; SC: Smear cytology.