A simplified classification for describing colposcopic vaginal patterns.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to highlight that colposcopic vaginal patterns are not specific, unlike cervical colposcopic patterns, and to provide a simpler classification of vaginal colposcopic patterns. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A total of 223 patients who underwent colposcopy with Schiller test were assessed (hierarchical log-linear model) retrospectively. RESULTS:The greatest predictability for histologically confirmed warts and cancers is represented by colposcopic patterns of wart and cancer. Lugol-negative area is strongly predictive of koilocytosis, even if it is found in other vaginal lesions. Thickened epithelium seems to better predict a severe vaginal lesion, whereas thin white epithelium better suggests a mild vaginal lesion. Colposcopic patterns were simplified as follows: Lugol-negative area, white epithelia (thin white epithelium and white thickened epithelium), vascular lesions (regular and irregular mosaicisms and punctations), wart, and cancer. Thus, koilocytosis is predicted by the Lugol-negative area, whereas white epithelia patterns and vascular patterns are not specific, suggesting overall vaginal intraepithelial neoplasias. Wart and cancer patterns are pathognomonic for histologically confirmed warts and cancers. CONCLUSIONS:Vaginal colposcopy poorly predicts the severity of vaginal lesions. By including each type of white epithelium within a new category called "white epithelia patterns" and each type of vascular pattern within a new category called "vascular patterns," it is possible to simplify vaginal colposcopy without compromising its accuracy.

journal_name

J Low Genit Tract Dis

authors

Indraccolo U,Baldoni A

doi

10.1097/LGT.0b013e318237ec82

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-04-01 00:00:00

pages

75-9

issue

2

eissn

1089-2591

issn

1526-0976

journal_volume

16

pub_type

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