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. 1989 Apr;59(4):594–599. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1989.120

Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in lymphoma patients: a cytological and colposcopic study.

R G Hughes 1, M Colquhoun 1, D M Eccles 1, M Alloub 1, A C Parker 1, M Norval 1, G E Smart 1
PMCID: PMC2247154  PMID: 2713244

Abstract

Twenty-seven patients with Hodgkin's (n = 19) and non-Hodgkin's (n = 8) lymphomas underwent cytological and colposcopic screening of the uterine cervix. Colposcopically directed cervical punch biopsies were taken from all patients in whom a colposcopic abnormality was detected. Lymphoma patients were compared with 79 controls with normal cervical cytology and no known haematological abnormality. Colposcopically directed punch biopsies were taken from the cervical transformation zone of all controls. Significantly more lymphoma patients (19%) than controls (3%) had CIN II or III (P less than 0.01) and cervical human papillomavirus infection, as judged by the presence of koilocytes (52% of lymphoma patients; 27% of controls; P less than 0.02). All six lymphoma patients with CIN had Hodgkin's disease (HD), and five had received combination chemotherapy. Half of the cases of CIN in lymphoma patients and all the cases of CIN in control patients were not detected by cervical cytology. This study suggests that female patients with HD are at increased risk of CIN, and that cervical cytology alone may be an inadequate form of screening for these patients.

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