Save. The length of time it takes the Internal Revenue Service to process a return, send a refund or apply a payment depends on several conditions, including the filing and refund delivery methods. The IRS, according to statistics on its website, processed more than 145 million individual returns in 2013.
Abnormal Pap Test - Cause. Most abnormal Pap tests are caused by HPV infections. Other types of infection-such as those caused by bacteria, yeast, or protozoa (Trichomonas)-sometimes lead to minor changes on a Pap test called atypical squamous cells.
For a diagnosis of ASC-US, a Pap smear has to have a specific type of abnormal cells (see Illustration 1). Illustration 1. ASC-US. Most nuclear enlargement in Pap tests is due to reactive change, and reactive changes and LSIL must be excluded by the pathologist when an ASC-US diagnosis is provided.