Cytological Studies on the Touch Smears of Patients Wearing Intrauterine Devices

Especially Presence of So-called Psammoma Bodies

Abstract

Psammoma bodies sometimes appear in the cervicovaginal smears of women who have endometrial or ovarian carcinoma. However, recently the authors have checked for psammoma bodies in the touch smears of 10 out of 39 women who have worn the IUD (5 months-24 years), and who do not have endometrial or ovarian carcinoma.
The authors would like to sav that even if we find psammoma bodies in vaginal or endometrial smears, we cannot conclude immediately that the patients have malignancies as was formerly usually suggested.