Pelvic radiotherapy for cervical cancer affects importantly the reproducibility of cytological alterations evaluation.
Fernanda A LucenaRicardo F A CostaMaira D SteinCarlos E M C AndradeGeórgia F CintraMarcelo A VieiraRozany M DuflothJosé Humberto T G FregnaniRicardo Dos ReisPublished in: BMC clinical pathology (2018)
This study showed that RT has an important impact in CP diagnosis because the agreement, also in interobserver and intraobserver analysis, had high discrepancy in patients that received RT. Also, demonstrated that it is difficult to recognize the presence of RT in cytological slides when this information is not provided.