Sentence examples for routine smear from inspiring English sources

"In May, I received abnormal results from a routine smear test, and following the biopsy results I underwent minor surgery which I'm pleased to say was successful.

Mrs Millward said she found out about the error when she went for a routine smear with her surgeon.

A 29-year-old woman who is dying from cancer after a London hospital missed abnormalities in a routine smear test is suing them.

Last January, Tracey was called for a routine smear test but she postponed her appointment several times because Philip was suffering from a series of chest infections.

"In May, I received abnormal results from a routine smear test and, following the biopsy results, I underwent minor surgery which I'm pleased to say was successful," she said.

Perceived stressfulness about attending for a subsequent (repeat or routine) smear test appointment was assessed using a seven-point scale.

Tessa Jowell, the former culture secretary told BBC News she believed Miliband must have known about McBride's activities including his routine smearing of opponents of Brown.

The sensitivity of routine smear-microscopy is approximately 50% [2], culture techniques take several weeks to yield results, and suitable representative biological samples are frequently unobtainable either due to lack of sputum production or poor sample quality.

The time required to examine the FM smear until reliably declared negative would be only 24 seconds more than the average routine smear-examination time in the Cameroon study.

When culture was added to the routine smear-based diagnosis of TB suspects in a high incidence area of South Africa, we found that 29.9% of 2537 SE were culture positive, compared to 20.0% for smear microscopy.

These women were either referred for colposcopy because abnormalities had been detected on previous smears (referral clinic setting, n = 461) or were attending for routine smears (screening setting, n = 1320).