HPV high-risk with HPV 16 and 18, anal/rectal-994

Test info

  
HPV high-risk with HPV 16 and 18, anal/rectal
  
994
  
LAB994
  
MSO
  
Human Papillomavirus
  

Specifically identifies types HPV 16 and HPV 18 while concurrently detecting the rest of the high-risk types: 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, and 68, without further specific differentiation.

Specimen

  
Anal/rectal swab
  

ThinPrep® Vial

  
An anal-rectal cytology specimen is collected using a Dacron swab.
  1. Moisten the swab in tap water and insert as far as possible into the anal canal.
  2. Slowly rotate the swab in one direction with gentle pressure on the walls as the swab is slowly being withdrawn.
    1. Care should be taken to ensure the transition zone is sampled.
  3. Vigorously rotate the swab in the PreservCyt® solution 10 times while pushing against the wall of the ThinPrep® vial.
  4. Swirl the swab vigorously to release additional material.
  5. Discard the swab.
  6. Tighten the cap on the ThinPrep® container so that the torque line on the cap passes the torque line on the vial.
  

ThinPrep® vial

  

Ambient (preferred) - 6 months

Frozen - NO

  
  • Improper collection
  • Inadequate specimen
  • Improperly labeled
  • Specimen more than six months old in ThinPrep® vial
  • Frozen specimens
  • Specimen leaked in transit
  • Quantity not sufficient (QNS) for analysis
  • Name discrepancies
  • Excessively bloody specimens

Performance

  
LabCorp Burlington (508005): R-NX
  
5 days/wk
  
5 - 7 days
  

Nucleic acid amplification (NAA)

Clinical and Interpretive info

  

Negative

Billing

  
87624
  
Result 75696-5

Tracking

  
05/20/2019
  
05/20/2019
  
03/30/2022