We performed stripbiopsies in 102 patients over a period of 6 months with the majority being diagnosed with HSIL.

The agreement between histologic results of strip biopsy and loop specimen was highly significant: in all 60 strip biopsies diagnosed with high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions this diagnosis was confirmed histologically during follow-up loop specimen excision (high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions in 58 patients, microinvasive disease in 2 patients).

The pain level experienced during strip biopsy was rated on average 0.25 on a scale from 0 to 10. No clinically significant bleeding was reported.