ESCISIÓN DE LA ZONA DE TRANSFORMACIÓN EN LESIONES DE CÉRVIX: ANÁLISIS DE 1.141 CASOS

SUMMARY Objective: To analyze the results of 1,141 cervical excisions. Method: Descriptive and retrospective study of the clinical charts and biopsies of 1,141 cases with surgical resection of the uterine cervix performed from 1999 to 2005. Only patients with a minimum of 18 months of follow up were included. Results: From 3,004 patients with a positive Papanicolaou smear for neoplastic cells and/or condyloma, 1,113 (97.5%) were treated with loop electrosurgical excisional procedure (LEEP) and 28 (2.5%) with cold-knife conization. The most frequent lesion (66.7%) found was high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL), follow by low grade SIL (7.8%); 74 patients (6.5%) presented with early stage of squamous cell carcinoma and 377 (33%) of the histological specimens revealed positive margins; 210 (18.4%) of the cases showed no histological lesion.