Two cases of tuberculous cervicitis are presented. The presence in cervical smears of both epithelioid and Langhans' giant cells, which are described, should raise a strong suspicion of tuberculosis.

Group B streptococcus is not often isolated by gynaecologists when a clinical diagnosis of cervicitis is made. I report on a patient suffering from cervicitis and urethritis caused by this organism, whose symptoms completely resolved after she was treated with phenoxymethylpenicillin.

OBJECTIVE The intent of this study was to determine the efficacy and tolerance of single-dose oral azithromycin in the treatment of pregnant women with endocervical chlamydial carriage. METHODS A retrospective review of clinic records over a two-year period identified pregnant patients treated with a single 1-g dose of azithromycin for chlamydial carriage. The side effects and subsequent chla...

A PRE-CANCEROUS lesion is one which is pronie to become malignant. A comparatively large ntiml)er of lesions of this kind are recognized in superficial structures-for example, arseniical and X-ray dlermatitis, leukoplakia vulvw, leukoplakia lingu?e, chlronic cervicitis and erosion of the cervix, and "chronic cystic mastitis." Even in these lesions, however, the incidence of malignant (lisease i...

JAFMC Bangladesh. Vol 6, No 2 (December) 2010 18 JAFMC Bangladesh. Vol 6, No 2 (December) 2010 19 JAFMC Bangladesh. Vol 6, No 2 (December) 2010 20 Abstract Many a times the clinical and per operative diagnosis does not correlate with histopathological diagnosis. Aim of this study was to compare the clinical, peroperative and histopathological findings of different cases of fibroid uterus, dysfu...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a necessary factor in the development of cervical cancer. A new HPV screening method, "Human Papillomavirus Genotyping (HPG)", was developed to detect 29 HPV genotypes distribution in China. The utility of HPG was compared to Hybrid Capture 2 High-Risk HPV DNA test (HC2), and it was determined that the HPG test had been proven to be a more credible and se...

Genital organ disorders cause economic losses due to infertility or sterility. Many studies were performed on these disorders in many countries in the world [2, 6, 13, 15, 16, 20, 22, 25]. Uterine disorders have been encountered in some studies and researchers [2, 24] reported that the most common lesion in the uterus was inflammatory changes. In abattoir studies in Turkey, metritis, uterine tu...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has significant advantages in treating gynaecological disorders. The paper has provided a brief introduction on the current progress of treating some gynaecological disorders including endometriosis, infertility, dysmenorrhea, abnormal uterine bleeding, premenstrual syndrome, menopausal syndrome, uterine fibroids, chronic pelvic inflammation, polycystic ovaria...

  Amoebiasis of the uterine cervix is an extremely rare entity and presentation as carcinoma cervix has only been reported once in the extensively searched English literature. It can clinically simulate cervical malignancy by virtue of surface papillomatous and overall ulcerated and necrotic appearance. We present a case of amoebic cervicitis in a 55-year old female which was suspected to be a...