[The role of cytological examination in diagnosis of precancer and cancer of the uterine cervix].
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of cytologic examination in the diagnosis of precancer and cancer lesions of the uterine cervix.


METHODS
We made a retrospective study for the period 30.08.2007 to 30.12.2008 in clinic of Oncogynecology, Oncologic center to University Hospital of Pleven. We included 51 patients with inflammatory, dysplastic and microinvasive changes of uterine cervix. They all passed through a cytologic examination before the operation and followed by conization, 42 patients had PAP above III class and 9 had PAP up to II class--no correspondence is found in 17.64% between the PAP test and permanent histological results of the conization and 82.53% we found correspondence.


CONCLUSIONS
Cytologic examination is a screening method for diagnosis of precancer and cancer lesion of the uterine cervix with proved efficiency, easy to perform and cheap, positive and negative predictive value is well.
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Khinkova
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Tanchev
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Tsvetkov
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Gorchev
D002031:Bulgaria; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000191:economics