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Treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia by colposcopically directed cryosurgery and subsequent pregnancy experience
Author(s) -
MONAGHAN J. M.,
KIRKUP W.,
DAVIS J. A.,
EDINGTON P. T.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1982.tb05082.x
Subject(s) - cryosurgery , cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , medicine , colposcopy , pregnancy , obstetrics , intraepithelial neoplasia , gynecology , cervical cancer , surgery , cancer , biology , genetics , prostate
Summary. Of 420 patients attending a colposcopy clinic 204 were treated with outpatient cryosurgery for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. It was possible to assess a definite outcome of therapy in 159 patients, and the lesion was successfully eradicated in 87% of them. Treatment failure appeared to be more common in patients of high parity, when the lesion extended into the cervical canal, and in those patients with large lesions. Failure appeared to be unrelated to patient age and to the histological grade of the lesion. In subsequent pregnancies utero‐cervical function was preserved.