{"id":17661,"date":"2025-07-08T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/services\/womens-health-services\/pap-smear\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:30:23","slug":"pap-smear","status":"publish","type":"services","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/services\/ob-gyn\/pap-smear\/","title":{"rendered":"Prueba de Papanicolaou"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<h2>Southcoast Health: Ofreciendo Papanicolaou en MA y RI<\/h2>\n<p>La citolog\u00eda vaginal es una prueba de detecci\u00f3n de <a href=\"http:\/\/live-southcoast-health.pantheonsite.io\/services\/cancer-care\/cervical-cancer\/\">c\u00e1ncer de cuello uterino<\/a>. Consiste en recoger una muestra de c\u00e9lulas cervicales durante un examen p\u00e9lvico. El m\u00e9dico introduce un hisopo por la vagina hasta llegar al cuello uterino, o abertura del \u00fatero. La muestra se env\u00eda a un laboratorio para su an\u00e1lisis.<\/p>\n<p>Southcoast Health ofrece una amplia variedad de servicios especializados. <a href=\"http:\/\/live-southcoast-health.pantheonsite.io\/services\/womens-health\/\">servicios de salud de la mujer<\/a>incluyendo Papanicolaou, en North Dartmouth, MA y sus alrededores. <a href=\"http:\/\/live-southcoast-health.pantheonsite.io\/doctors\/?specialties=obstetrics-gynecology&amp;search=\">Buscar un ginec\u00f3logo\/obstetra<\/a> cerca de usted o <a href=\"http:\/\/live-southcoast-health.pantheonsite.io\/contact-us\/\">p\u00f3ngase en contacto con Southcoast Health<\/a> para programar su examen anual y citolog\u00eda vaginal.<\/p>\n<h2>Razones para hacerse una citolog\u00eda<\/h2>\n<p>La raz\u00f3n principal para someterse a una citolog\u00eda vaginal es detectar el c\u00e1ncer de cuello uterino y las c\u00e9lulas precancerosas en el cuello uterino. La t\u00e9cnica de la citolog\u00eda identifica estos y otros cambios anormales en las c\u00e9lulas del cuello uterino. La infecci\u00f3n por el virus del papiloma humano (VPH) causa casi todos los casos de c\u00e1ncer de cuello uterino. Su ginec\u00f3logo o m\u00e9dico de atenci\u00f3n primaria debe realizarle una citolog\u00eda vaginal como parte de su <a href=\"http:\/\/live-southcoast-health.pantheonsite.io\/services\/womens-health\/gynecology\/\">examen ginecol\u00f3gico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>La frecuencia de las pruebas depende de su edad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Las mujeres de 21 a 29 a\u00f1os deben hacerse una citolog\u00eda vaginal cada tres a\u00f1os.<\/li>\n<li>Las mujeres de 30 a 65 a\u00f1os deben someterse a una citolog\u00eda vaginal y una prueba del VPH cada cinco a\u00f1os. La citolog\u00eda vaginal sola cada tres a\u00f1os es una alternativa.<\/li>\n<li>Las mujeres mayores de 65 a\u00f1os pueden dejar de hacerse citolog\u00edas en funci\u00f3n de su historial m\u00e9dico.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Algunas mujeres pueden necesitar pruebas m\u00e1s frecuentes en funci\u00f3n de su riesgo de c\u00e1ncer de cuello uterino.<\/p>\n<h2>C\u00f3mo prepararse para una citolog\u00eda<\/h2>\n<p>Puede prepararse para una citolog\u00eda evitando las cosas que pueden causar un resultado incorrecto de la prueba. Durante los dos d\u00edas anteriores a la citolog\u00eda no:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ducha<\/li>\n<li>Tener sexo<\/li>\n<li>Utilizar tampones o medicamentos, cremas, sprays o desodorantes vaginales.<\/li>\n<li>Tampoco debe hacerse una citolog\u00eda durante la menstruaci\u00f3n o demasiado cerca de ella, ya que puede provocar resultados falsos. El mejor momento para hacerse una citolog\u00eda es entre 10 y 20 d\u00edas despu\u00e9s del inicio del periodo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Recuperaci\u00f3n y expectativas<\/h2>\n<p>La citolog\u00eda vaginal no es dolorosa. Puede sentir una ligera molestia cuando el hisopo roza la superficie del cuello uterino para recoger las c\u00e9lulas. Tambi\u00e9n puede manchar despu\u00e9s. Despu\u00e9s de la citolog\u00eda puede retomar sus actividades normales.<\/p>\n<p>Conocer\u00e1 los resultados de su citolog\u00eda vaginal en un plazo de una a tres semanas. Si obtiene un resultado anormal, es posible que necesite repetir la prueba o someterse a otras pruebas de seguimiento, como una prueba del VPH.<\/p>\n<p><em>Southcoast Health ofrece pruebas de salud femenina, incluida la citolog\u00eda vaginal, en el sureste de Massachusetts y Rhode Island.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southcoast Health: Ofreciendo frotis de Papanicolaou en MA y RI Un frotis de Papanicolaou es una prueba de detecci\u00f3n de c\u00e1ncer de cuello uterino. 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