the 1991 bethesda system for cervical/vaginal cytology reporting has defined adequacy criteria, including unsatisfactory designation. most laboratories in usa and a few laboratories in iran have implemented these criteria, but only few studies about clinical implications have been performed. all unsatisfactory papanicolaou (pap) smears taken between august 2000 and march 2002 were retrieved fro...

OBJECTIVE The study was planned with the purpose of examining the attitude of women who have pap-smear test for the early diagnosis of cervical cancer, factors affecting their decisions and their feelings and experiences during this period. MATERIALS AND METHODS A phenomenological method was used. Data were collected between March 2012 and April 2012 using standard and purposive samplings fro...

a study on clinical signs of tuberculosis patients in urmia a gholami , bsc l moosavi jahromi ,bsc received: 11 aug, 2009 accepted: 25 oct, 2009 abstract background & aims: tuberculosis is a major health problem worldwide, especially in developing countries. the warning signs of pulmonary tuberculosis are chronic cough with sputum that is usually accompanied by bloody sputum, and sometimes the ...

abstract background: screening is a necessity for country health systems. in undeveloped countries that have no screening programs, cervical carcinoma is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity. although cervical cancer is preventable it is poorly controlled in some countries. the main cause of it is unawareness of people from cervical cancer and screening methods. methods: the targe...

conclusions specimen adequacy and diagnosis of inflammatory reaction were better in liquid base smear and convention smear, respectively. results specimen adequacy and smear quality were significantly better in liquid base sampling (p = 0.03); presence of benign cellular changes was not different between the two groups (p = 0.389). diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis was significantly better with ...

background cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis (tb) is rare in children. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of cavitary pulmonary tb in children. patients and methods this retrospective study was conducted on 97 children less than 15 years old with pulmonary tb to assess the clinical characteristics and radiographic findings of patients with cavitary lesions. resul...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death from infectious diseases worldwide. Sputum smear microscopy remains the most widely available pulmonary TB diagnostic tool particularly in resource limited settings. A highly sensitive diagnostic with minimal infrastructure, cost and training is required. Hence, we assessed the diagnostic per...

SUMMARY The aim of this survey is to measure the knowledge and behavior of married women who attended to the health centers in southern part of Tehran about the cancer of uterine cervix and Pap Smear test. The selection of region 11 from southern part of Tehran and 350 married women in this region based on random sampling technique. The findings and results of this survey showed that: the maj...

Kebanyakan perempuan takut terkena kanker leher rahim, tetapi tidak faham faktor risikonya. Kesadaran melakukan deteksi dini penyakit ini masih terkendala perasaan malu dan biaya yang murah. Jumlah penderita rahim di indonesia menempati urutan nomor dua tertinggi didunia. Pemahaman benar tentang akan meningkatkan kesadaran skrining sehingga pencegahan lebih mudah dilakukan. Pengabdian masyaraka...

objective: since colposcopy biopsy test plays a significant role in the evaluation of cervix, especially in patients with an abnormal result of pap smear test, therefore, this research study was conducted to compare the results of pap smear and colposcopy directed punch biopsy tests at firoozgar and akbarabady hospitals from 2001 to 2003. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was ca...