Table 1: Agreement between test results in initial cytology report and those generated from subsequent review of cytology slides by panel members for Alberta women with invasive cervical cancer from 1990 to 1991
Result in initial report*	Diagnosis by panel;* no. of women
	Normal	Benign	ASCUS	LSIL	HSIL	Invasive	No diagnosis†	Other‡	Total
Normal	50	4	29	3	11	2	2	3	104
Benign	10	9	19	0	15	9	1	1	64
ASCUS	6	0	21	5	13	5	0	2	52
LSIL	0	0	2	10	24	5	0	0	41
HSIL	0	0	8	1	81	21	0	0	111
Invasive	0	0	1	0	1	28	0	0	30
No report received§	8	0	4	1	5	1	1	0	20
Other†	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2
Total	74	13	84	20	151	72	4	6	424
*Benign = benign cellular changes, ASCUS = atypical squamous cells of uncertain significance, LSIL = low-grade squamous-cell intraepithelial lesion, HSIL = high-grade squamous-cell intraepithelial lesion. †Miscellaneous cellular changes other than those listed. ‡Slides were viewed as technically unsuitable for interpretation. §Slides were made available but without accompanying reports.

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