Low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion

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Low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, abbreviated LSIL, is a pre-cancerous lesions of the uterine cervix.

Increasingly, the term is being applied to other anatomical sites, e.g. vagina.

It is in the larger category of squamous intraepithelial lesion, abbreviated SIL.

General

SIL is divided into grades:

  • Low-grade.
  • High-grade.

The new and old terminology

SIL (current terminology) LSIL HSIL
Recent terminology CIN I CIN II, CIN III
Very old terminology mild dysplasia moderate dysplasia, severe dysplasia

Treatment

Overview:

  • LSIL: follow-up unless persistent. It usually regresses on its own.

Microscopic

Features:[1]

  • "Koilocytic atypia":[2]
    • Cytoplasmic halos.
    • Nuclear enlargement >=3:1 enlarged nucleus:normal nucleus.
    • Nuclear membrane irregularities.
    • Nuclear hyperchromasia.
    • Coarse chromatin.
    • Binucleation may be seen (cytopathic effect of HPV).[3]

Note:

  • Atypical cells usually close to basement membrane.
    • May be seen, focally, in the upper layers.[2]

DDx:

Koilocytes versus benign squamous

Koilocytes:

  • Perinuclear clearing.
  • Nuclear changes.
    • Size similar (or larger) to those in the basal layer of the epithelium.
    • Nuclear enlargement should be evident on low power, i.e. 25x. [4]
    • Central location - nucleus should be smack in the middle of the cell.

Notes:

  1. Both perinuclear clearing and nuclear changes are essential.
  2. Benign cells have a small nucleus that is peripheral.

Images

  • LSIL - intermed. mag. (WC)

  • LSIL - intermed. mag. (WC)

  • LSIL - high mag. (WC)

  • LSIL - very high mag. (WC)

  • CIN I. (WC/KGH)

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Cotran, Ramzi S.; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Nelso Fausto; Robbins, Stanley L.; Abbas, Abul K. (2005). Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease (7th ed.). St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Saunders. pp. 1075-6. ISBN 0-7216-0187-1.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nucci, Marisa R.; Oliva, Esther (2009). Gynecologic Pathology: A Volume in Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series (1st ed.). Churchill Livingstone. pp. 146. ISBN 978-0443069208.
  3. ↑ Roteli-Martins CM, Derchain SF, Martinez EZ, Siqueira SA, Alves VA, Syrjänen KJ (2001). "Morphological diagnosis of HPV lesions and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is highly reproducible". Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol 28 (2): 78–80. PMID 11491378.
  4. ↑ V. Dube 2008.
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