Pregnant women and those with a history of colposcopy or chronic or autoimmune disease were excluded from the trial. Every 6 months, participants provided cervical samples for HPV DNA typing.

Women with positive test results underwent colposcopy and biopsy, as did a random sample of women who tested negative. The sensitivity of HPV testing was 94.6%, whereas that of Pap testing was 55.4%.

If a woman’s HPV infection persists after a year, she may be referred for a colposcopy, a procedure in which a doctor inserts a speculum into the vagina to widen the vagina so they can see the ...

Women had been referred to the hospital's Women's Health Service for colposcopy after an abnormal Papanicolaou smear. The colposcopic examination was performed by one of the Obstetrics and ...

HPV test Colposcopy: The doctor will closely examine your cervix with a magnifying tool called a colposcope to better understand the range of the atypical cells and possibly collect a small sample.

Not only would its use result in a 50% reduction in colposcopy referral for ASCUS patients compared with hr-HPV triage, it would also result in a similar reduction in colposcopy referral for LSIL ...