Vaccines (Mar 2023)

Outcomes of High-Grade Cervical Dysplasia with Positive Margins and HPV Persistence after Cervical Conization

  • Andrea Giannini,
  • Violante Di Donato,
  • Francesco Sopracordevole,
  • Andrea Ciavattini,
  • Alessandro Ghelardi,
  • Enrico Vizza,
  • Ottavia D’Oria,
  • Tommaso Simoncini,
  • Francesco Plotti,
  • Jvan Casarin,
  • Tullio Golia D’Augè,
  • Ilaria Cuccu,
  • Maurizio Serati,
  • Ciro Pinelli,
  • Alice Bergamini,
  • Barbara Gardella,
  • Andrea Dell’Acqua,
  • Ermelinda Monti,
  • Paolo Vercellini,
  • Giovanni D’Ippolito,
  • Lorenzo Aguzzoli,
  • Vincenzo Dario Mandato,
  • Luca Giannella,
  • Cono Scaffa,
  • Antonino Ditto,
  • Francesca Falcone,
  • Chiara Borghi,
  • Mario Malzoni,
  • Alessandra Di Giovanni,
  • Maria Giovanna Salerno,
  • Viola Liberale,
  • Biagio Contino,
  • Cristina Donfrancesco,
  • Michele Desiato,
  • Anna Myriam Perrone,
  • Pierandrea De Iaco,
  • Simone Ferrero,
  • Giuseppe Sarpietro,
  • Maria G. Matarazzo,
  • Antonio Cianci,
  • Stefano Cianci,
  • Sara Bosio,
  • Simona Ruisi,
  • Lavinia Mosca,
  • Raffaele Tinelli,
  • Rosa De Vincenzo,
  • Gian Franco Zannoni,
  • Gabriella Ferrandina,
  • Marco Petrillo,
  • Giampiero Capobianco,
  • Annunziata Carlea,
  • Fulvio Zullo,
  • Barbara Muschiato,
  • Stefano Palomba,
  • Stefano Greggi,
  • Arsenio Spinillo,
  • Fabio Ghezzi,
  • Nicola Colacurci,
  • Roberto Angioli,
  • Pierluigi Benedetti Panici,
  • Ludovico Muzii,
  • Giovanni Scambia,
  • Francesco Raspagliesi,
  • Giorgio Bogani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11030698
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3
p. 698

Abstract

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The objective of this work is to assess the 5-year outcomes of patients undergoing conization for high-grade cervical lesions that simultaneously present as risk factors in the persistence of HPV infection and the positivity of surgical resection margins. This is a retrospective study evaluating patients undergoing conization for high-grade cervical lesions. All patients included had both positive surgical margins and experienced HPV persistence at 6 months. Associations were evaluated with Cox proportional hazard regression and summarized using hazard ratio (HR). The charts of 2966 patients undergoing conization were reviewed. Among the whole population, 163 (5.5%) patients met the inclusion criteria, being at high risk due to the presence of positive surgical margins and experiencing HPV persistence. Of 163 patients included, 17 (10.4%) patients developed a CIN2+ recurrence during the 5-year follow-up. Via univariate analyses, diagnosis of CIN3 instead of CIN2 (HR: 4.88 (95%CI: 1.10, 12.41); p = 0.035) and positive endocervical instead of ectocervical margins (HR: 6.44 (95%CI: 2.80, 9.65); p p = 0.021) were associated with worse outcomes. In this high-risk group, positive endocervical margins is the main risk factor predicting 5-year recurrence.

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