Ancillary Techniques in the Histopathologic Diagnosis of Squamous and Glandular Intraepithelial Lesions of the Uterine Cervix

Squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma comprise the most common cancers of the uterine cervix. Cervical cancer is one of the common cancers in women, especially in certain parts of the world, as Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, South Central Asia and Melanesia [1]. In several countries the incidence of cervical cancer was reduced after the introduction of effective screening methods and prevention programs, initially based on the Papanicolaou smear (Pap test), and it is expected to diminish much further with the introduction of vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV) [2-4].