نتایج جستجو برای: smear clear

تعداد نتایج: 208108  

Journal: :journal of research in medical sciences 0
fariba behnamfar azam zafarbakhsh taj-alsadat allameh

background: abnormal pap smear consists of premalignant or malignant cervical lesions. many of premalignant cervical lesions will never progress to invasive malignancy, or even may regress over the time. thus, there is always a risk of overtreatment of patients with an abnormal pap smear. a long-term follow-up of these patients can reveal final events associated with each  subtype of abnormal p...

2013
Gene Gulati Jinming Song Alina Dulau Florea Jerald Gong

A microscopic examination of an appropriately prepared and well-stained blood smear by a knowledgeable laboratory professional is necessary and clinically useful in a number of circumstances and for a variety of reasons. In this article, an attempt is made to delineate the purpose and criteria for blood smear examination in a variety of circumstances that are encountered in everyday laboratory ...

2014
Nanteza Gladys Kigozi Perpetual Chikobvu James Christoffel Heunis Sonja van der Merwe

Little is known about the drivers of two-month sputum smear non-conversion in the South African context. Our study sought to determine these factors in new sputum smear positive tuberculosis (TB) patients in South Africa's Free State Province. A retrospective record review was conducted for all TB patients on treatment between 2003 and 2009. Two-month sputum smear non-conversion was defined by ...

2017
Hassan Al Khudairi Ahmed Abu-Zaid Osama Alomar Hany Salem

AIMS To explore the public awareness, knowledge, and attitudes of Saudi women towards Pap smear as a screening test for cervical cancer. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional study took place in four major secondary and tertiary healthcare hospitals located in the capital city Riyadh between January 2016 and June 2016. A self-administered, coded, close-ended survey was randomly distributed to...

Journal: :Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP 2014
Sabin Ranabhat Mamta Tiwari Govinda Dhungana Reshmi Shrestha

BACKGROUND Coverage of cervical pap smear test in Nepal is below general global values. One of the reasons may be that cervical cancer prevention policy of Nepal has 'Visual Inspection of Cervix with Acetic Acid' as the only screening tool. The focus of present study was to find out association of demographic factors, knowledge and attitude regarding cervical Pap smear test with its practice by...

2012
Sumit Malhotra Sanjay P. Zodpey Shivani Chandra Ram Pal Vashist Srinath Satyanaryana Rony Zachariah Anthony D. Harries

BACKGROUND The Indian guidelines on following up sputum smear-negative Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients differ from the current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines in that the former recommends two follow up sputum examinations (once at the end of intensive phase and the other at the end of treatment) while the latter recommends only one follow up sputum smear microscopy examination...

Journal: :Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2008
Alma Tostmann Sandra V Kik Nico A Kalisvaart Maruschka M Sebek Suzanne Verver Martin J Boeree Dick van Soolingen

BACKGROUND Sputum smear microscopy is commonly used for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB). Although patients with sputum smear-negative TB are less infectious than patients with smear-positive TB, they also contribute to TB transmission. The objective of this study was to determine the proportion of TB transmission events caused by patients with smear-negative pulmonary TB in The Netherlands. METH...

2013
Mark P. Nicol Andrew Whitelaw Stevens Wendy

Xpert MTB/RIF is an automated real-time polymerase chain reaction test for simultaneous detection of tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance. Xpert MTB/RIF has demonstrated excellent accuracy in clinical evaluation studies, but has reduced sensitivity for detection of smear-negative tuberculosis. Since sample processing and detection are largely automated, Xpert MTB/RIF is potentially suitable f...

Journal: :Investigacion clinica 2013
José Núñez-Troconis Elisabetta Tulliani María Gabriela Martínez Ninorka Fernández

The purpose of this research was to investigate how the knowledge and attitudes have influence in Cervical Cancer (CC) screening among Venezuelan women, by realizing a cross-sectional descriptive study based on a structured non disguised questionnaire with closed ended questions: yes/no questions and multiple choices. The survey was performed on 691 volunteers, of which 595 were analyzed. Each ...

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