[Colposcopic, cyto- and histologic signs of papilloma virus infection in precancerous and early stages of cervix cancer]

Abstract

Basis of present study are examinations in 100 women with colposcopic and/or cytologic abnormalities suspect of preinvasive or early invasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix. We found 76 colposcopic abnormal findings in 100 women examined. In 36 women there was a colposcopic suspicion on a papilloma virus infection, in 32 cases combined with abnormal colposcopic findings. All 100 patients had cytologic smears group III and/or IV according to Papanicolaou. In 71 women cytologic signs of a papilloma virus infection was detected in the cervical smears. We found histologic signs of a papilloma virus infection in 69 cases in the specimen of biopsy, conization or hysterectomy (5 times condylomata acuminata, 53 times flat condylomata and 11 times inverted condylomata). Preinvasive respectively invasive and papillomavirus caused lesions of the cervix are coexisting in 59 cases. Our examination demonstrates that also in GDR in about 70 per cent of the precancerous or invasive cervical lesions signs of an infection with human papilloma viruses are present histologically and/or cytologically.