ThinPrep™ 5000 System Instructions for Use English AW-22289-001 Rev. 003 11-2021 16/36
Table 12: Summary of Specimen Adequacy Results
Specimen Adequacy
ThinPrep Conventional
Number of Patients:
7223
N % N %
Satisfactory 5656 78.3 5101 70.6
Satisfactory for Evaluation
but Limited by:
1431 19.8 2008 27.8
Air-Drying Artifact 1 0.0 136 1.9
Thick Smear 9 0.1 65 0.9
Endocervical Component
Absent
1140 15.8 681 9.4
Scant Squamous
Epithelial Component
150 2.1 47 0.7
Obscuring Blood 55 0.8 339 4.7
Obscuring Inflammation 141 2.0 1008 14.0
No Clinical History 12 0.2 6 0.1
Cytolysis 19 0.3 119 1.6
Other 10 0.1 26 0.4
Unsatisfactory for
Evaluation:
136 1.9 114 1.6
Air-Drying Artifact 0 0.0 13 0.2
Thick Smear 0 0.0 7 0.1
Endocervical Component
Absent
25 0.3 11 0.2
Scant Squamous
Epithelial Component
106 1.5 47 0.7
Obscuring Blood 23 0.3 58 0.8
Obscuring Inflammation 5 0.1 41 0.6
No Clinical History 0 0.0 0 0.0
Cytolysis 0 0.0 4 0.1
Other 31 0.4 9 0.1
Note: Some patients had more than one subcategory.
Table 13: Specimen Adequacy Results
Conventional
SAT SBLB UNSAT TOTAL
ThinPrep
SAT 4316 1302 38 5656
SBLB 722 665 44 1431
UNSAT 63 41 32 136
TOTAL 5101 2008 114
7223
SAT=Satisfactory, SBLB=Satisfactory But Limited By, UNSAT=Unsatisfactory
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