Table 4.

Results of cytological diagnoses compared with histopathological diagnoses

Cytological diagnosis n = 327	Histopathological diagnosis
	Negative		Positive
	Negative (n = 142)	Borderline lesion − (n = 32)	Borderline lesion + (n = 4)	OIN/CIS (n = 12)	Positive (n = 137)
NILM (n = 98)	77 (54.2%)	11 (34.3%)	2 (50.0%)	1 (8.3%)	7 (5.1%)
LSIL (n = 82)	47 (34.3%)	11 (34.3%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (16.7%)	22 (16.1%)
HSIL (n = 40)	8 (5.6%)	9 (28.1%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (33.3%)	19 (13.9%)
SCC (n = 104)	9 (6.3%)	1 (3.1%)	2 (50.0%)	5 (41.7%)	87 (63.5%)
Other malignancy (n = 3)	1 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (1.5%)

NILM negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy, LSIL low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, HSIL high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, SCC squamous cell carcinoma, OIN oral intraepithelial neoplasia, CIS carcinoma in situ