Table 1
The grade of the histological or cytological abnormality at original presentation, the presence of a positive or negative smear or biopsy (in the interim period), and the grade of disease (if any) in the hysterectomy specimens of 71 patients who had hysterectomies after a previous cervical abnormality
| Original diagnosis: high grade disease | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIN II/III: interim diagnosis | Moderate/severe dyskaryosis: interim diagnosis | |||||
| Final diagnosis | Positive | Negative | None | Positive | Negative | None |
| Carcinoma | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| CIN II/III | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| CIN I | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Nil | 6 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Original diagnosis: low grade disease | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BCAUS/CIN I: interim diagnosis | BNC/mild dyskaryosis: interim diagnosis | |||||
| Final diagnosis | Positive | Negative | None | Positive | Negative | None |
| Original diagnosis refers to the grade of lesion for which the patient originally came to medical treatment. | ||||||
| Interim diagnosis refers to the presence (positive) or absence (negative) of an abnormal smear or biopsy between the original diagnosis and hysterectomy. | ||||||
| Final diagnosis refers to the presence and grade of abnormality in the hysterectomy specimen. | ||||||
| BCAUS, basal cell abnormality of uncertain significance; BNC, borderline nuclear change; CIN, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. | ||||||
| CIN II/III | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| CIN I | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Nil | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
