Document 0713
 DOCN  M9550713
 TI    Screening for cervical abnormalities in women with anogenital warts in
       an STD clinic: an inappropriate use of colposcopy.
 DT    9505
 AU    Coker R; Desmond N; Tomlinson D; Bretherton K; Byrne M; Department of
       Genitourinary Medicine, Patrick Clements Clinic,; Central Middlesex
       Hospital, London, UK.
 SO    Int J STD AIDS. 1994 Nov-Dec;5(6):442-4. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/95151869
 AB    An audit of the use of colposcopy in women with anogenital warts was
       performed. Fifty women attending a clinic for sexually transmitted
       diseases in a District General Hospital with anogenital warts were
       examined by cervical cytology and colposcopy for cervical infection by
       human papillomavirus (HPV) or epithelial abnormality indicating cervical
       intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) or both. Collated results showed a high
       prevalence of both conditions in these 50 women; 20 (40%) had evidence
       of cervical infection by HPV and 11 (22%) epithelial abnormalities
       consistent with CIN 1 or 2. However, neither CIN 3 nor invasive disease
       was detected. Colposcopy in this setting was shown to be a specific but
       insensitive tool and its role in the routine management of women with
       anogenital warts at our institution is not warranted.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Cervix Diseases/*DIAGNOSIS  Cervix
       Neoplasms/*DIAGNOSIS  *Colposcopy  Condylomata Acuminata/*COMPLICATIONS
       Female  Human  Medical Audit  *Papillomavirus, Human  Papovaviridae
       Infections/*DIAGNOSIS  Tumor Virus Infections/*DIAGNOSIS  JOURNAL
       ARTICLE

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