Epithelial cell abnormality
SQUAMOUS CELL
Atypical squamous cells
atypical squamous cell changes of undetermined significance ASC-US
cannot exclude high grade intraepithelial lesion ASC-H
these are classifications of what was found on the smear and what to look for on the biopsy from the colposcopy. The Pap smear is a screening tool and its classifications indicate to the doctor whether there is a risk of having cervical cancer. The classification system your doctor's Pap laboratory is using is called the Bethesda System.
The next step you had was the colposcopically directed biopsy or colposcopy of the cervix to see whether the changes on the cervix are the same as the Pap, worse than the Pap indicates (example: carcinoma in situ, or invasive cancer) or less severe (example: mild dysplasia, inflammation) than the Pap indicated. The biopsy result is the "gold standard", not the Pap result. Your further treatment and follow-up depend upon what the biopsy shows.
It is important to treat the tissue biopsy results from the colposcopy and not the Pap smear. Assuming the biopsy shows moderate or severe dysplasia, the most frequently used treatment right now is the loop electrical excision procedure (LEEP). In this procedure, the cells that are abnormal and usually located at the transformation zone of the cervix are excised.
so, you have to see what the colposcopy results come back as.
