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Accuracy of cervical cytology: comparison of diagnoses of 100 Pap smears read by four pathologists at three hospitals in Norway.

Sveinung Wergeland SørbyePål SuhrkeBerit Wallem RevåJannicke BerlandRamona Johansen MaursethKhalid Al-Shibli
Published in: BMC clinical pathology (2017)
Cervical cancer screening based on cytology has limited accuracy. The study revealed a moderate agreement between the observers, along with a trade-off between sensitivity and specificity. This might indicate that hospitals with high detection rates of cervical cytology have higher sensitivity for CIN2+ but lower specificity.
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