Characterization of cervicouterine lesions in patients treated in “Ernesto Guevara de la Serna” hospital

Abstract

Background: there has been an increase of the incidence of cervicouterine cancer in patients from Las Tunas province in recent years.

Objective: to characterize those patients with cervical lesions, whose biopsies were analyzed in the pathologic anatomy department of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna General Teaching Hospital from January, 2013 to December, 2014.

Methods: a descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 1369 patients who were treated at the place and time period mentioned above for cervical lesions; the official model biopsy was used as a secondary source for collecting information. The data were processed using descriptive statistics.

Results: out of the total sample, the frequency of positive biopsies for cervical lesions were: 44,4 % in 2013 and 55,6 % in 2014. Females from 26 to 35 old, 47,4 %, prevailed, followed by the group of 36 to 55 years old, 43,46 %; intraepithelial neoplasia grade I was found in 42,73 %. The 33,6 % of the sample showed infection by the human papilloma virus, from which 35,28 % belonged to 2013 and 32,19 % to 2014. Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III reported the largest number of patients with cervicitis, for a 42,95 %, followed by carcinoma in situ, present in 93 % of the sample.

Conclusions: cervicouterine lesions were characterized in patients from the province; the age group from 26 to 35 years old prevailed, as well as intraepithelial neoplasia grade I; about a third of the patients were infected with human papilloma virus, and there was a higher incidence of cervicitis in patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade.