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Prognosis and Recurrence Risk for Patients with Cervical Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions Diagnosed During Pregnancy by Keith J. Kaplan; Louis A. Dainty; Brad Dolinsky; G. Scott Rose; Jay Carlson; Michael McHale; John C. Elkas is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: In the current study, the authors sought to examine the prognosis and recurrence risk for patients with cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions (sils) diagnosed during pregnancy. ## Methods: A retrospective review of all women who gave birth at walter reed army medical center (washington, dc) or the national naval medical center (bethesda, md) between 1986 and 1997 was performed. one hundred fifty-seven patients with sils who underwent antepartum and postpartum evaluation were identified from a total of 6248 records of birth at these two institutions. patient demographics and cervical cytology and histology were reviewed. ## Results: One-hundred twenty-nine patients were diagnosed with low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (lsils) antepartum. of these patients, 49 (38%) had a previous history of abnormal cervical cytology (30 lsils and 19 high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions [hsils]). twenty-eight patients were diagnosed with hsil antepartum. of these patients, 24 (86%) had a history of abnormal cervical cytology. sixty-two percent of patients with antepartum lsils had disease regression postpartum, 32% had persistent lsils postpartum, and 6% experience
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- Author
- Keith J. Kaplan; Louis A. Dainty; Brad Dolinsky; G. Scott Rose; Jay Carlson; Michael McHale; John C. Elkas
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0008-543X)
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)