Objective: The purpose of our study was to investigate the presence of three-group metaphase in progressive cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.
Study Design: This was a retrospective histologic study on the conization specimens of 41 women with microinvasive cervical carcinoma, 28 of whom were enrolled in the study. Three-group metaphase was scored in the invasive part of the lesion and in the adjacent cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.
Results: Three-group metaphase was found in 93% of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia adjacent to the invasive part of the lesion. However, three-group metaphase was found in 11% of the microinvasive cervical carcinoma cases with an infiltration depth of less than 2.5 mm and in 60% of the microinvasive cervical carcinoma cases with an infiltration depth of between 2.5 and 5.0 mm.
Conclusion: The chance of finding three-group metaphase seems to be limited by the area of the lesion examined for three-group metaphase on the slide. Given the relation between three-group metaphase and aneuploid cervical intraepithelial neoplasia found in the literature and the occurrence of three-group metaphase in the cervical intraepithelial neoplasia adjacent to the microinvasive cervical carcinoma in this study, three-group metaphase can be considered a morphologic criterion for progressive cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and can be of value for practical use.
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