title: Evaluation of cervical cytological abnormalities in Turkish population.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cervical cancer is one of the most common female malignancy with high mortality rates in developing countries. Our purpose was to determine the prevalence of cervical cytologic abnormalities in population (strict Islamic religious area) and the detection rate of epithelial abnormalities by cervical cytology (CC).
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 32,026 conventional pap smear tests collected between January 2006 and January 2010 from three hospitals are retrospectively analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Total of 900 (2.8%) cases had epithelial abnormalities. The numbers and rates of epithelial abnormalities were as the followings: Atypical squamous cell of undetermined significance (ASCUS; n=615 [1.9%]); atypical squamous cell suspicious for high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (ASC-H; n=27 [0.1%]); atypical glandular cell of undetermined significance (AGUS; n=73 [0.2%]); low- grade squamous intraepitelial lesion (LSIL; n=147 [0.5%]); high- grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL; n=35 [0.1%]); and squamous cell carinoma (SCC; n=3 [0.0%]).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of cervical cytological abnormality in our study was 2.8%. Recently, some conflicting results from the same population were published. More prospective studies with larger numbers are needed.
authors.affiliation: Obstetrics and Gynecology Division, Maltepe University Medicine Faculty Hospital Atatürk Cad. Maltepe Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Remzi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Atilgan
authors.forename: Aygen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Celik
authors.forename: Abdullah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boztosun
authors.forename: Erdin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ilter
authors.forename: Tulin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yalta
authors.forename: Resat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ozercan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D065006:Papanicolaou Test; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D014626:Vaginal Smears; D055815:Young Adult