title: Internal Federation for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy nomenclature and treatment for cervical preinvasive disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the effects of IFCPC transformation zone type and treatment modality on outcome from excisional treatments for cervical pre-invasive disease at an inner city colposcopy department.
  
  
  METHODS
  All patients treated within the colposcopy department for whom age, treatment modality, resection margin status at histology and six-month cytologic data was available.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Transformation zone type is affected by patient age. Change in accessibility of the transformation zone to examiantion by colposcopy affected cytologic outcome. There was no obvious effect of treatment modality to explain this change in outcome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Transformation zone type is an important determinant of excisional treatment outcome for cervical disease. This needs to be considered when comparing therapeutic success.
authors.affiliation: Department of Colposcopy, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: Richard Hadwin
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Bm
authors.forename: Wenwei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003127:Colposcopy; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D002577:Uterine Cervical Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000601:surgery*