BACKGROUND A cytologic reading of a Papanicolaou (pap) smear followed, if the result is positive, by a colposcopic search for abnormal cells is the most common screening method for cervical cancer used worldwide. We aimed to present the correlation of smear and colposcopic findings with 6- to 12-month follow-up results and related factors in women who underwent colposcopy in Turkey. MATERIALS...

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...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the frequency of cytohistologic discrepancy of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) in Pap smears and associated factors. METHODS Medical records of 223 women with HSIL Pap smears who were treated at Thammasat University Hospital were reviewed. Data on age, parity, menopausal status, contraceptive use and colposcopic directed biopsy and loop electrosurgic...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Cervical cancer is a serious public health problem in Brazil. For patients with unsatisfactory colposcopic examinations without visible lesions, but with cervical cytological tests suggesting high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL), the national recommendation is to repeat cervical cytological tests after three months. Our aim was to assess the prevalence of HSIL...

Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in postmenopausal women with negative cervical cytology Four cases of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia were detected among 50 postmenopausal women in whom cytological examination of a cervical smear yielded negative results, indicating the need for cytological surveillance of women into old age. Cytological and colposcopic examination of the cervix was perfo...

Correspondence: Calina Dragosloveanu, e-mail: [email protected] We sought to determine the correlation between the colposcopic impression (by means of RCIReid Colposcopic Index) and histopathology in patients who have undergone LEEP (‚see and treat’ strategy) for cytological high-grade dysplasia. This was a prospective study carried out in ”Prof. Dr. Panait Sârbu” Hospital in Buch...

UNLABELLED AIM OF THIS STUDY was to examine the frequency of cervical cancer and cervical intraepithelial lesions of a different degree in women, corelation between cytologically diagnosed CIN I, CIN II and CIN III lesions and colposcopic findings and corelation between cytologic and pathohistologic findings of CIN III lesion. MATERIAL AND METHODS Cytologic and colposcopic findings have been ...

Background: Global strategies to eliminate cervical cancer will probably be followed by a drop in prevalence of precursor neoplasias, leading the need improving colposcopic diagnostic performance that may negatively affected. The aim this study was assess agreement among five colposcopists regarding presence three isolated images, and different degrees findings. Methods: In retrospective study,...