A 27-year-old woman visits the office for a routine health checkup. Neither the patient nor his or her family have a history of cancer. She has engaged in multiple sexual relationships and uses oral contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. The vital indicators are typical. It is typical to get a physical examination, including a pelvic exam. A squamous intraepithelial lesion that has tested positive for the human papillomavirus is discovered during a Pap test. A cervical biopsy is performed and reveals low-grade dysplasia. Which of the following features distinguishes this patient's lesion from cervical malignancy?

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A 27-year-old woman visits the office for a routine health checkup. Neither the patient nor his or her family have a history of cancer. She has engaged in multiple sexual relationships and uses oral contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. The vital indicators are typical. It is typical to get a physical examination, including a pelvic exam. A squamous intraepithelial lesion that has tested positive for the human papillomavirus is discovered during a Pap test. A cervical biopsy is performed and reveals low-grade dysplasia.  Which of the following features distinguishes this patient's lesion from cervical malignancy?

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Eductional Objective: Disruption of coordinated epithelial cell differentiation and obvious cellular pleomorphism are characteristics of dysplasia. Low-grade dysplasia, which affects only a tiny section of the epithelium, often spontaneously regresses, in contrast to high-grade dysplasia, which frequently leads to invasive malignancy. When aberrant cells breach the basement barrier, invasive cancer results.

A 27-Year-Old Woman Visits the Office for a Routine Health