title: Risk of progression in low grade squamous intraepithelial lesions.
abstract: In order to evaluate the evolution of the low grade dysplasia using colpocytologic follow-up, 150 women, enrolled in this study, were submitted to yearly colpocytologic control for a period of four years. The rate of progression toward more severe forms was very low; three cases (2.14%) in the first year, one case (0.7%) in the second and two cases (2.32%) in the fourth. Eighty-eight per cent of the patients had cytologic signs of Human Papilloma Virus infection detected in cytologic and histologic examination.
authors.affiliation: Service of Gynaecologic Oncology and Cytodiagnostics, University of Padua.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Insacco
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: De Matteis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cinel
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Onnis
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Minucci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002278:Carcinoma in Situ / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D027383:Papillomaviridae; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D002578:Uterine Cervical Dysplasia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014626:Vaginal Smears