Clinical significance of unsatisfactory conventional pap smears owing to inadequate squamous cellularity defined by the Bethesda 2001 criterion.

To determine the incidence of clinically significant lesions in long-term follow-up after a diagnosis of inadequate squamous cellularity using former and new criteria, we reviewed conventional Papanicolaou (Pap) smears (January-December 1998) for adequacy based on the Bethesda System 2001 criterion. Of 23,302 Pap smears evaluated in our laboratory, 114 (0.489%) were classified as unsatisfactory and 245 (1.

Bethesda 2001. Impact on the reporting of gynecologic cytology.

Objective: To examine the impact of implementing Bethesda 2001 in one laboratory.

Study Design: A computer search identified all cervicovaginal specimens evaluated between July 2001 and June 2002. Bethesda 2001 was implemented on January 1, 2002.