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Colposcopy, biopsy, and cytology results in women with chlamydial cervicitis.

Colposcopy and biopsy were carried out at diagnosis and at follow up of 222 women. Of 322 cervical biopsy specimens taken, 174 were from women with chlamydial cervicitis (patients) and 48 from control women (both at diagnosis) and 100 from 76 patients and seven controls at follow up. Of the 174 patients with chlamydial cervicitis, 158 (91%) had erythema compared with 9/48 (19%) controls, and 14...

"Medical audit of rectal biopsy diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease" is not medical audit.

Prospective audit of mucosal biopsy specimens of the gastrointestinal tract.

AIMS To determine why mucosal biopsy specimens of the gastrointestinal tract were taken and whether they were justified on clinical or pathological grounds. METHODS A prospective audit of 190 consecutive biopsy specimens received in a university hospital histology department over six weeks. RESULTS The 31 separate presenting symptoms included diarrhoea (34%), abdominal pain (16%) and rectal...

Medical audit of rectal biopsy diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease.

The records of the rectal biopsy diagnoses of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in the Department of Pathology, St Mark's Hospital, London, were reviewed. The biopsy diagnoses were compared to subsequent resection diagnoses on the same patients, and annual and seasonal variations in the frequency of these and related diagnoses were studied. The accuracy rate for the biopsy diagnosis of ulc...

Comparison of Screening Colposcopy with Diagnostic Colposcopy

Cervical cancer is among the common gynecologic malignancies effective and well developed cytologic screening programs are not available in developing countries. This study is to compare screening and diagnostic culposcopy. In a prospective cross-sectional study 2235 screening and 2318 diagnostic colposcopies were compared. Diagnostic colposcopy indications included chronic vaginal discharge, a...