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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-1-20
pubmed:abstractText
Immunocytochemical staining for papillomavirus antigen was carried out on 1147 consecutive cervical punch biopsy specimens over 12 months. Of 876 cases with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 351, were antigen positive and of 49 cases with histological evidence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection but no CIN, 14 were positive. There were 204 cases reported to be normal on routine histological examination and 12 cases reported to show features suggestive but not diagnostic of HPV infection. Of the normal group, 24 (12%) were antigen positive and of the equivocal group, two were positive. In 122 of the normal or equivocal groups cytological examination was repeated at the time of colposcopy, and dyskaryosis was reported in 36. In only four cases was disease shown by HPV antigen staining when there was no diagnostic histological or cytological abnormality. HPV antigen staining assists in the recognition of the range of histological changes associated with productive HPV infection but is an insensitive test and has only limited value in supplementing histological and cytological examinations as a diagnostic aid in routine colposcopic pathology.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9746
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1212-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Routine papillomavirus antigen staining of cervical punch biopsy specimens.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Histopathology, Whittington Hospital, London.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't