Citologia de base líquida: prevalência de achados cérvico - vaginais em clínica privada de Aracaju/SE

Abstract

Objective: to describe and correlate the main findings of cervicovaginal liquid-based cytologies of patients attended by private clinic of Aracaju/SE between January and June of 2017. METHODS: A retrospective and descriptive study was carried out from the 1162 cytology reports. RESULTS: the main reason for the cytological examination was the cervical cancer screening and the mean age was 40 years old. Samples adequacy were observed in 98.45%, being the main reason for the inadequacy the presence of hypocellular material (83.33%). The main benign changes observed were: inflammation (47.12%) and the association of inflammation and metaplasia (28.24%). The vaginal flora was present in 1120 of the samples, being observed the presence of Lactobacillus sp. (50.70%), other Bacilli (24.92%) and Candida sp. (12.93%). The exams were altered in 3.75% of the samples, being observed in decreasing order of prevalence: atypical squamous cells of indeterminate significance (90.70%), atypical squamous lesions of undetermined significance in which high-grade lesions cannot be excluded (2.33%) and low grade squamous lesions (6.97%). There was a significant association between age and benign changes, Fisher's exact test: p = 0.029. CONCLUSION: The main indication of the vaginal cytology examination was the screening for cervical cancer. Significant association was observed between the benign changes and age of the patients.