Journal of Cytology & Histology

Cervical Cytology Associated with Pelvic Inflammatory Diseases

Abstract

Misra JS, Srivastava AN, Sharique A and Srivastava KR

Objective: The present study was aimed to investigate the incidence of squamous intraepithelial lesions of cervix (SIL), frank cervical cancer and different STDs in 503 women with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
Study design: Cytological evolution of cervical smears was carried out in 503 women attending Gynae Outpatient Department of Era’s Lucknow Medical College, Lucknow India, between October 2009 and June 2014 who were diagnosed with PID and also during Rural Cervical Cancer Screening in Malihabad and Kakori Block of Lucknow District between May 2013 to April 2015.
Results: The cervical cytology in 503 women with PID showed alarmingly high rate of SIL (144- cases -28.6%) though 134 of them were of low grade. No case of carcinoma cervix was seen. The incidence of Candida albicans was 4.3% in these women and only 2 cases of Trichomonal infection were seen. The incidence of SIL was maximum in younger, sexually active women between 21-30 years after which it declined.
Conclusion: The study revealed a very high incidence of SIL associated with PID. As majority of the women screened were from rural areas, it appears that poor hygiene and persistent infection has led to the high incidence of SIL. Hence urgent need is felt in organizing cytological screening programme in rural region of the country to screen specially the symptomatic women to detect any early onset of cervical precancer, the subsequent treatment of which would check any progression of the disease to malignancy.