PURPOSE to evaluate the agreement between conventional cytology using the Papanicolaou test, repeated at the time of colposcopy, with colposcopic and histopathological findings. METHODS the study was carried out at the central public health laboratory of the state of Pernambuco between January and July, 2008, involving 397 women referred for colposcopic evaluation following an abnormal cervic...

The aim of our study was to compare the various diagnostic modalities for evaluation chronic vulval symptoms. We studied 100 women presenting with symptoms who underwent examination vulva low magnification, scrape cytology, colposcopy & directed biopsy. overall sensitivity and specificity detecting vulvar lesions 29.87% 100% magnification 58.44% 13.04% cytology 77.92 % 17.39 colposcopy. con...

For this tribute to Mario Sideri, we reviewed some of the current issues in colposcopy, many of which we were researching with him. The review concentrates on the impact of HPV testing on cervical screening, specifically on the practice of colposcopy as the major diagnostic procedure in cervical screening programmes. Topics include the changing population of women referred to colposcopy, evolvi...

OBJECTIVE To test whether video colposcopy reduces anxiety among patients undergoing colposcopy. METHODS In a prospective, randomized multicenter trial, we compared video colposcopy and no video colposcopy in a one-to-one ratio. Situation-specific anxiety was measured before (S1) and after (S2) colposcopy using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. The primary endpoint was the reduction of the s...

Few studies have compared the relative efficacy of attention-focus strategies in reducing clinical pain. Colposcopy, a medical diagnostic examination performed to identify premalignant cervical cell changes, elicits both anxiety and pain in patients, while allowing little or no behavioural control over the event. Employing a multi-group experimental design, the present study sought to investiga...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to determine (1) the extent to which family physicians are performing colposcopy, (2) which colposcopic procedures are performed by these family physicians, (3) demographic characteristics of physicians who perform colposcopy, and (4) whether physicians who do not perform colposcopy plan to do so in the future. METHODS A questionnaire was mailed to...

Cervical erosion, a common gynaecological finding,either has inflammatory or neoplastic origin. Colposcopy and guided biopsy help in differentiating inflammatory lesions from neoplastic lesions. The objectives were to study various colposcopic findings in cervical erosions, to co-relate colposcopy findings with histopathology of cervical biopsy and to find out the outcome of different treatment...

Introduction: Cancer of uterine cervix is the most common genital tract malignancy. Pap smear though widely used screening test for cervical cancer has the disadvantage of low sensitivity. Colposcopy has higher sensitivity compared to Pap smear. Concurrent screening with Pap smear and colposcopy can overcome this problem. Aim: The aim of the study was correlation of Pap smear and colposcopic fi...