| results of longterm hospital based cytological screening in asymptomatic women. | routine cytological screening has been carried out in 27,062 asymptomatic women attending gynaec and family planning o.p.d. of queen mary's hospital, lucknow, india (april 1971-december 2004). incidence of squamous intraepithelial lesion (sil) was found to be 5.9% in the series, while cervical malignancy was seen in 0.6% of cases. the study highlighted the immense utility of cytological screening in minimizing the incidence of carcinoma cervix in the segment of the urban population screened, as ... | 2006 | 16470854 |