[Cytofluorimetric research on the epithelium of the cervix uteri in malignancy]

The cervical dysplasia and cancer of the uterine cervix of 82 patients have been studied by the cyto-fluorimetric technique. There were 46 patients with dysplasia of mild, moderate and severe degree and 36 patients with different histopathologic type cancer of the uterine cervix T1-2N0M0. DNA content was determined in cytological smears and scrapings of cervix uterus epithelium using luminescent microscope equipped with photometric device FMEI-1. The mean DNA content under dysplasia of cervix uterus reliably differed from that in control (3.504 +/- 0.054 and 4.715 +/- 0.051, respectively). The level of DNA content was heterogenic and elevated in cases of intraepithelial cancer and carcinoma in situ (8.369 +/- 0.84 and 10.098 +/- 0.28, respectively). This value was considerably higher than tumor progression (9,423 +/- 0.051).