[Papilloma virus-induced changes in the uterine cervix. Histo- and cytologic and epidemiologic findings].

In this epidemiological, cytological and histological study signs of papillomavirus infections were found in 128 cases (16,6 per cent) and dysplasia or carcinoma in situ in 713 cases in a series of 773 cone biopsies. Epithelial changes caused by papillomavirus were combined with preneoplastic lesions in 116 cases. Pretherapeutic cytologic examinations of the condylomatous epithelial changes secured histologically later on referred to cervical papillomavirus infections in 64 per cent. Epidemiological inquiries of patients with cervical papillomavirus infection correspond extensively to those with invasive carcinoma of the cervix and premalignant cervical lesions.