title: [Frequency of cervical epithelial lesions reported in the Regional Laboratory of Exfoliative Cytology in Jalisco].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Official Mexican Norm for the prevention, treatment and control of Cervical Cancer (CC) indicates that the Papanicolau (Pap) is the procedure for the detection of this neoplasia; therefore, it is of interest to know the prevalence of suspected cases by this technique in Mexican population. In this study, we show the diagnosed cases in the State of Jalisco, México.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study was made to the samples that arrived for their analysis to the Laboratorio Regional de Citología Exfoliativa (LARCE), of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) in Guadalajara, Jalisco. We considered all cases from January 2010 to December 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We analyzed 188 095 cases, from which 5.3 % had a diagnosis of low dysplasia, 0.18 % of moderated dysplasia and 0.05 % of high dysplasia. Microinvasive and invasive cancer showed a low frequency (0.03 %).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The frequency of abnormal findings identified by vaginal cervical cytology is relatively low. The number of inadequate and limited samples for cytological assessment is high; there is a high proportion of women attending for the first time in life to cytology evaluation in older age groups.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio Regional de Citología Exfoliativa, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. lfjave@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: González-López
authors.forename: María G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Martínez-Silva
authors.forename: Dulce M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Hernández-Hernández
authors.forename: Adriana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aguilar-Lemarroy
authors.forename: Luis Felipe
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Jave-Suárez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D065006:Papanicolaou Test; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D065310:Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions of the Cervix / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014626:Vaginal Smears; D002578:Uterine Cervical Dysplasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology
keywords: Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; Cytology; Mexico; Screening