摘要：Objetive: Descriptive, correlational and retrospective study. Sougth to determine the effectiveness of the testing and correlation index between uterine cervical cytology and colposcopy, procedures performed in a health institution in Santa Marta, Colombia, in the period January to December 2011. Methods: analyzed 34 cases from the medical history of patients with similarity in the presumptive diagnosis of squamous intraepithelial lesion of low and high risk, were practiced uterine cervical cytology and colposcopy as a confirmatory test. The tests were practiced in the same entity under study, was analyzed by correlation index and effectiveness of the tests separately trhough the T test. Results: Women aged between 18 and 55 years old, the correlation index between cytology and colposcopy not evidenced direct relationship, obtaining a reverse and weak index. The individual analysis of effectiveness of tests through the T test, confirms higher effectiveness of colposcopy respect to the cytology. Conclusions: found higher effectiveness of colposcopy for the definition of the diagnosis in a group of patients treated with a reverse and weak relationship between the two tests.
