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Table 14: Specimen Adequacy Results by Site
Site Cases ThinPrep
SAT
Cases
Convent.
SAT Cases
ThinPrep
SBLB
Cases
Convent.
SBLB
Cases
ThinPrep
UNSAT
Cases
Convent.
UNSAT
Cases
S1
1,386 1092 1178 265 204 29 4
S2
1,668 1530 1477 130 178 8 13
S3
1,093 896 650 183 432 14 11
H1
1,046 760 660 266 375 20 11
H2
1,049 709 712 323 330 17 7
H3
981 669 424 264 489 48 68
All Sites
7,223 5656 5101 1431 2008 136 114
The Satisfactory But Limited By (SBLB) category can be broken down into many subcategories,
one of which is the absence of Endocervical Component. Table 15 shows the Satisfactory But
Limited By category “No ECC’s” for ThinPrep™ and conventional slides.
Table 15: Specimen Adequacy Results by Site, SBLB Rates for no Endocervical Component.
SBLB Due to No ECC’s
Site Cases ThinPrep
SBLB-
no ECC’s
ThinPrep
SBLB-
no ECC’s (%)
Conventional
SBLB-
no ECC’s
Conventional
SBLB-
no ECC’s (%)
S1
1,386 237 17.1% 162 11.7%
S2
1,668 104 6.2% 73 4.4%
S3
1,093 145 13.3% 84 7.7%
H1
1,046 229 21.9% 115 11.0%
H2
1,049 305 29.1% 150 14.3%
H3
981 120 12.2% 97 9.9%
All Sites
7,223 1140 15.8% 681 9.4%
For the results of the clinical study involving a split-sample protocol, there was a 6.4 percent
difference between conventional and ThinPrep methods in detecting endocervical component.
This is similar to previous studies using a split sample methodology.