Abstract
226 patients were subjected to conization (including all cases with positive vaginal cytology and without clinical suspicion of invasion of the uterine cervix) at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Malmo General Hospital, in 1963 and 1964. The operative technique was standard throughout the series which was followed up for 5 years.
Of the patients subjected to conization alone, nearly 95% showed no signs of recurrence at the end of the 5-year period. Late sequelae were few and mild. Fertility after the operation was high and the course of pregnancies normal.
Conization therefore is very valuable not only as a diagnostic method but also as an effective treatment for preinvasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix.