cervicography การใช้

• Unlike colposcopy, cervicography does not have a current Category III CPT code of 0003T, but this was discontinued in 2006 .)
• Cervicography is no more sensitive than Pap smear screening, and has a higher false positive rate ( thus increasing the number of colposcopies needed ).
• Experimental visualization techniques use broad-band light ( e . g ., direct visualization, speculoscopy, cervicography, visual inspection with acetic acid or with Lugol's, and colposcopy ) and electronic detection methods ( e . g ., Polarprobe and in-vivo Spectroscopy ).
• Whether cervicography could have a role in countries where Pap smear screening programs are not in place depends on cost effectiveness and remained to be determined as of 1998 . however, a 2007 study criticized the sensitivity figure as " likely . . . inflated " because the " gold standard " of colposcopy / biopsy may have missed cases of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.