Individual risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia progression in patients with chronic cervicitis

Abstract

We proposed predictive method of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia progression in women with chronic cervicitis, it is favorable one in routine clinical practice. Two groups of women with chronic cervicitis aged 22 to 52 years old with low (n = 36) and high (n = 21) degree of squamous intraepithelial lesions in accordance with the histological examination of cervical tissue were compared. The discriminant analysis helped to develop a risk prediction formula for progression of intraepithelial neoplasia. The variables are «age», «number of sexual partners», «number of births», «Streptococcus pyogenese», and «smoking history». The predictive value of the discriminant function on available data is 0.97.

Keywords

• intraepithelial neoplasia
• cervicitis
• applied discriminant analysis