The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic efficacy colposcopic-directed biopsy and four-quadrant in detecting high-grade cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia (CIN). Women attending three women’s clinics for routine screening were recruited. Colposcopy arranged women with any cytologic abnormalities greater than atypical squamous cells undetermined significance (ASCUS), two consecutive ...

The first year's experience of a satellite colposcopy clinic in the Glasgow Family Planning Centre was analysed. Establishment of the clinic was supervised by an experienced member of the colposcopy team at the department of gynaecology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, who trained one of the family planning centre's staff. Close links were thus maintained with the hospital clinic to which patients ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of optical coherence tomography (OCT) under two well-defined clinical settings. First, as an aid to cervical cancer screening, using visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) in low-resource settings, and the second, as an adjunct to the traditional management of abnormal cervical cytology with colposcopy and biopsy. Pati...

Objectives: To estimate diagnostic efficacy of visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) in comparison to Pap smear. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried over a period of 24 months on 200 women attending colposcopy clinic at KLES Dr Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Center, Belgaum, India. All women enrolled in study underwent Pap smear, VIA, colposcopy and biopsy. The sens...

PURPOSE to identify valid guidelines for the approach of women with cytopathological diagnosis of undetermined significance atypias in squamous cells (ASC), discussing its applicability to the Brazilian scenario. METHODS an electronic search of publications at PubMed, National Guidelines Clearinghouse and Scholar Google was carried out, as well as a manual search of references from the texts ...

BACKGROUND The colposcopy service is a key component in the UK Cervical Screening Programme. Over 120,000 women are referred to the service annually, however up to 25% of women fail to attend their appointment. Little is known about patients' preferences for colposcopic investigation and treatment. This study aims to investigate women's experience of colposcopy, to identify patients' preference...

BACKGROUND Several countries are implementing a transition to HPV testing for cervical screening in response to the introduction of HPV vaccination and evidence indicating that HPV screening is more effective than cytology. In Australia, a 2017 transition from 2-yearly conventional cytology in 18-20 to 69 years to 5-yearly primary HPV screening in 25 to 74 years will involve partial genotyping ...

Cervical cancer incidence and mortality have declined dramatically after screening for cervical was implemented. Yet, studies reported high rates at older age despite low HPV prevalence of precursor lesions. The underlying reason these findings remains unclear. However, it is well known that the impact depends not only on uptake effectiveness but also diagnostic workup (ie colposcopy), treatmen...

OBJECTIVE The present study evaluated indications' validity of cervicoscopic and microcolposcopic examination in LSIL patients with unsatisfactory or negative colposcopy. MATERIAL AND METHODS [corrected] In the cervico-vaginal pathology unit of the "San Giovanni Calibita Fatebenefratelli" University of Rome "Tor Vergata", 119 patients with a positive cervical cytology (LSIL), were submitted t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of primary colposcopy in the genitourinary medicine setting by comparing the cervical cytology and punch biopsy results for women identified as having an abnormal cervical transformation zone. METHOD A retrospective audit of six years' findings in primary colposcopy was carried out. The punch biopsy findings of 1338 women were compared with their last c...