Prevalence of HPV Genotypes in South Europe: Comparisons between an Italian and a Turkish Unvaccinated Population

Table 2

Incidence of cytological alterations in HPV-positive patients.

	Group A (Italian) ()	Group B (Turkish) ()	value
Negative	49 (31%)	37 (42%)	0.094
ASCUS	40 (25.3%)	38 (43.2%)	0.004
L-SIL	37 (23.4%)	6 (6.8%)	0.0008
H-SIL	32 (20.3%)	7 (8.0%)	0.0110

ASCUS: atypical squamous cells of undeterminated significance; L-SIL: low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions; H-SIL: high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions.