Background: Female genital schistosomiasis is a gynecological disease caused by Schistosoma haematobium. The uterine cervix appears to be the most affected area with cases found in sub-Saharan Africa. Though both males and females can affected, consequences of are more pronounced reported increased risk HIV transmission malignancy female genitalia. shares similarities presentation those cervica...

Endometriosis is a common pathology among women of reproductive age. In the pathogenesis its development great importance paid to process regulation estrogens and other sex hormones, implementation immune response at general local levels, inflammatory response, genetic background. recent years, role microbiota in different parts genital tract female organism has been studied not only from stand...

BACKGROUND Diseases of the cervix are common in young sexually active women. Non-neoplastic diseases are predominantly inflammatory and are common but there are a few publications on the subject compared to neoplastic diseases of the cervix. MATERIALS AND METHODS The surgical day books of the Histopathology department of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex Ile-Ife, Niger...

In all malignant diseases, several clinical and histopathological tests are established as standard methods for diagnosis. Alternative diagnostic quantitative methods are still lacking or conflicting in cancer of the cervix. Although DNA analysis was one of the earliest applications in flow cytometry and the DNA content of fresh/frozen tissue have shown good prognostic results in many diseases ...

Telomerase, a fundamental marker of neoplastic transformation, is widely expressed in both premalignant intraepithelial lesions and in most malignant lesions of the uterine cervix. We determined telomerase activity (TA) in uterine cervix by Repeat Amplification Protocol (TRAP) in a series of 62 cases, 44 with benign diseases (inflammation and/or metaplasia and/or acanthosis) and 18 with cervica...

Removal of the cervix during hysterectomy is not mandatory. There has been no irrefutable evidence so far that total hysterectomy is more beneficial to patients in terms of pelvic organ function. The procedure that leaves the cervix intact is called a subtotal hysterectomy. Traditional approaches to this surgery include laparoscopic and abdominal routes. Vaginal total hysterectomy has been prov...

Attempts were made to isolate Chlamydia trachomatis from the cervix of 300 women attending a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases in Leeds. The women were divided into four groups; (1) 130 were consorts of men suffering from non-specific urethritis; (2) 66 were suffering from gonorrhoea, or were consorts of men suffering from this disease; (3) 56 were suffering from other sexually transmitt...

This review highlights the possibilities of photodynamic therapy (PDT) using drugs based on chlorin e6, aluminum phthalocyanine, methylene blue as photosensitizers for bacterial and fungal pathologies. method was developed initially to treat tumor diseases, where it had shown its high efficiency safety. Now is actively used in treatment cancers skin, bronchi, stomach, cervix, larynx, or other r...