This is to investigate the cervical cytological abnormalities associated with Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma hominis, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Ureaplasma urealyticum infections on routine screen. A total of 714 subjects who had undergone cervical Pap smears and concomitant analyses for cervical infections were included by a retrospective search. The frequencies of reactive cellular change ...

A cutaneous horn is a hard cone-shaped protrusion consisting of dense keratin resembling animal horns, which occurs due to abnormalities in the spinous layer epidermis, causing excess accumulation. This disease can be found any body part, especially regions exposed lot sunlight, such as ears. Surgical excision treatment choice for this disease. One case was reported male patient aged 75 years w...

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...

Background and aims: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide and the 13th in Jordan. The cervical smear (Pap smear) is a simple approach to detect pre-cancerous cervical lesions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of abnormal cervical smears in women seen at the Early Detection/Community Outreach clinic of King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC). Material...

To determine the incidence of clinically significant lesions in long-term follow-up after a diagnosis of inadequate squamous cellularity using former and new criteria, we reviewed conventional Papanicolaou (Pap) smears (January-December 1998) for adequacy based on the Bethesda System 2001 criterion. Of 23,302 Pap smears evaluated in our laboratory, 114 (0.489%) were classified as unsatisfactory...

Epithelial abnormalities: Von Brunn’s nests Cystitis glandularis Cystitis cystica Squamous metaplasia Nephrogenic adenoma Papillary hyperplasia Non-specific cystitis Papillary-polypoid cystitis Specific cystitis Follicular cystitis Interstitial cystitis Eosinophilic cystitis Giant cell cystitis Radiation cystitis Incrusted cystitis Emphysematous cystitis Granulomatous cystitis Malakoplakia Poly...

purpose : to develop a guideline for the treatment of incompletely removed histopathologically documented ocular surface neoplasia (ossn) with mitomycin c (mmc). materials & methods : through an interventional case series, 17 eyes of 17 patients presented with incompletely removed ossn were treated according to a protocol using 2-3 alternate 7-day courses of mmc 0.04%. clinical recurrence was r...

background and objective: basal cell carcinoma (bcc) and squamous cell carcinoma (scc) are two common tumors of the skin. in some cases, distinction between bcc and scc can be difficult. this study aimed to clarify this uncertainty through immunohistochemical analysis. in this respect, epithelial membrane antigen (ema) and ber-ep4 are the two immunohistochemical markers on which we focus in dif...

OBJECTIVE To clarify the importance of squamous and glandular atypia in the genital tracts of women undergoing high-dose chemotherapy and receiving tamoxifen. STUDY DESIGN The pathology records of 769 female bone marrow transplant recipients from a five-year period at Duke University Medical Center were reviewed. One hundred fifteen cervicovaginal smears from 78 patients were available for ev...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence and characteristics of abnormal pap smear in the central region of Saudi Arabia. METHODS In this retrospective case control study conducted in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Histopathology at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, all pap smears screened for Saudi women between 2008 and 2011 were reviewed. Approxima...