Conservative management of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2 and prediction of its progression - a retrospective study

Vol. 65 No. 3, 2024

ROMANIAN JOURNAL of MORPHOLOGY and EMBRYOLOGY

Alexandru Carauleanu, Raluca Anamaria Mogos, Iustina Petra Solomon-Condriuc, Claudia Florida Costea, Andrei Ionut Cucu, Stefana Raluca Bran, Adina Elena Tanase, Gabriel Valentin Tanase, Elena Andreea Pruteanu, Demetra Gabriela Socolov, Florin Dumitru Petrariu, Catalin Mihai Buzduga

Aim: Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2 (CIN2) evolution is controversial, and some of them regress spontaneously in a two-year follow-up. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the percentage of CIN2 progression or persistence during a 24-month follow-up, using clinical predictors such as human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype and cytology results. Patients, Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective case-control study and included patients of reproductive age who had a new diagnosis of CIN2 who were monitored for lesion regression (Group 1, n=72 patients), and progression or persistence (Group 2, n=36 patients). A multinominal logistic regression was preferred to evaluate the impact that various categorical risk elements can lead to outcomes of persistence or progression of CIN2. We also performed a linear regression to assess the risk of CIN2 progression or persistence using the interaction between clinical predictors. Results: A previous cervical cytology indicative of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) [relative risk ratio (RRR): 3.85, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.66-8.90] or atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude HSIL (ASC-H) can highly raise the probability of a CIN2 progression or persistence. The presence of HPV16 increased the risk of CIN2+ with 3.77 (95% CI: 0.78-5.00), the presence of HPV18 increased the probability of CIN2+ with 4.39 (95% CI: 1.35-14.33), and other high-risk HPV (HR-HPV) strains increased the probability of CIN2+ with 3.62. The highest risk issue was produced by the interaction between HSIL* HPV16, ASC-H* HPV16, and ASC-H* HPV18. Conclusions: When discussing follow-up for CIN2 lesions, it is important to offer careful consideration and monitoring of patients with a previous HSIL or ASC-H cytology, with or without HPV 16, 18 or other HR-HPV strains, as their presence significantly increased the risk of CIN2 progression and persistence.

Corresponding author: Claudia Florida Costea, Professor, MD, PhD; e-mail: costea10@yahoo.com; Iustina Petra Solomon-Condriuc, MD, PhD; e-mail: iustina_condriuc@yahoo.com

DOI: 10.47162/RJME.65.3.06 Download PDF
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