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Speculum lubricant appears not to affect pap smear. (Reconsider Dogma?).
SAN DIEGO--When it comes to reading Pap smears, it doesn't matter if you lubricate the speculum, Dr. J. Scott Pies said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
In a pilot study conducted at Indiana University, Indianapolis, four senior-level cytotechnologists were just as likely to report the presence of lubricant on smears taken using nonlubricated specula as they were on smears taken with lubricated ones, said Dr. Pies of the university.
"Perhaps we should consider discarding the dogma of 'no lubricant for Pap smears,'" he suggested.
Fifty women were randomly assigned to undergo a routine Pap smear with or without lubricant. The participants were all older than age 18 years, were not currently pregnant or menstruating, and had not ...
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