title: Cytology suggestive of glandular neoplasia: outcomes and suggested management.
abstract: Eighty-three cases having a cervical smear result showing abnormal glandular cells were identified and matched up with the diagnostic histology result. Thirty-four (41.0%) were associated with malignancy and 26 (31.3%) with a cervical intraepithelial lesion without invasion. Thirty-eight (45.8%) had conditions of the cervix as follows: 12 cases had invasive disease of the cervix; nine (10.8%) adenocarcinoma of cervix and three (3.6%) squamous carcinoma of cervix. Nineteen (22.9%) had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN/SIL) alone and seven (8.4%) had cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasia (CGIN) +/- CIN. There were 16 (19.3%) cases with malignancies of the uterine corpus and six (7.2%) had a malignancy arising from another primary site. Twenty-three (27.7%) had no malignant or pre-malignant condition. The risk of malignancy was related to age and ranged from 18.2% in those under 35 years to 67.9% in those 55 years and over. A protocol for the management of these cases is described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Northampton General Hospital, Northampton, UK.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Hare
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Sharp
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D003581:Cytodiagnosis / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009375:Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D014626:Vaginal Smears; D002578:Uterine Cervical Dysplasia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*