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Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia

"Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A malignancy arising in uterine cervical epithelium and confined thereto, representing a continuum of histological changes ranging from well-differentiated CIN 1 (formerly, mild dysplasia) to severe dysplasia/carcinoma in situ, CIN 3. The lesion arises at the squamocolumnar cell junction at the transformation zone of the endocervical canal, with a variable tendency to develop invasive epidermoid carcinoma, a tendency that is enhanced by concomitant human papillomaviral infection. (Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 49 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2009 and 2012
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