background: this study aimed to explore the experiences of iranian women regarding the barriers to and facilitating factors for cervical cancer screening. methods: eight focus groups (n= 86 participants) were conducted with women referred to a health center in karaj, iran from january to march, 2007. purposeful sampling was used. married women aged 18 years old and over, not suffering from obst...

background: by presenting this case we aimed to describe an uncommon complication of generalized peritonitis following spontaneous pyometra perforation in untreated cervical carcinoma. case presentation: this report describes a 60-year-old postmenopausal woman presenting with clinical features mimicking intestinal perforation who was later diagnosed as cervical carcinoma with pyometra perforati...

objective(s):  although several chemical and physical methods for gene delivery have been introduced, their cytotoxicity, non-specific immune responses and the lack of biodegradability remain the main issues. in this study, hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (nps) and 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanol​amine (dope)-modified hydroxyapatite nps was coated with antisense oligonucleotide of e6 mrna...

the purpose of this study was to determine whether sectioning the cervical septum is associated with intraoperative bleeding, incompetent cervix, and secondary infertility. in this prospective observational study, fourteen women with complete septate uterus who had a history of repeated pregnancy loss and infertility were treated hysteroscopically. preoperative history included 35 pregnancies o...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the defense cells changes of cervical mucous during follicular and luteal phases of estrus cycle in river buffalo. reproductive organs of the adult and apparently healthy female buffaloes were collected from the slaughterhouse. by visual investigation of both the ovaries for presence of corpus luteum and growing follicles, the luteal and follicular phase of...

The structure of the sheep cervix limits the application of reproductive biotechnologies such as embryo transfer and artificial insemination. The aim of this study was to determine differences in cervical anatomy and morphology between Sanjabi lambs and ewes, and the relationship between cervical anatomy and cervical penetration in ewes. Four hundred and sixty eight postmortum cervices belongin...

abstract aims: a few studies concentrate on the level of knowledge of hpv. this study was conducted to evaluate the level of knowledge about hpv, its risk factors, and its relation with cervical cancer in women of kashan city, iran. instrument & methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in january 2015 in the population of the women of kashan city, iran, and 200 persons were...

conclusion the relationship between calcification of teeth and maturation of cervical bones was significant. bone maturation can be predicted by using teeth calcification stages, especially in the second molar, first molar and lateral incisor. results correlations between the two stages were observed in the first and second premolars, canine and central incisors. all these correlations were sig...

objective(s):  infection by high-risk papillomavirus is regarded as the major risk factor in the development of cervical cancer. recombinant dna technology allows expression of the l1 major capsid protein of hpv in different expression systems, which has intrinsic capacity to self-assemble into viral-like particles (vlp). vlps are non-infectious, highly immunogenic and can elicit neutralizing a...