MATERIAL AND METHODS The current study analyzed the degree of agreement between HPV testing, Pap smear, and colposcopic directed cervical biopsies. The study was performed on a group of 332 patients diagnosed and treated for cervical dysplasia at Cuza-Vodă Obstetrics-Gynecology Clinic Hospital and Suceava County Hospital between 2006 and 2011. RESULTS 190 patients (57.23%) were positive for H...

OBJECTIVE To explore the feasibility of digital photography for primary cervical cancer screening in a low-resource setting in El Salvador. METHODS Three independent examiners performed Pap test, visual inspection, digital camera assessment and colposcopy on each subject. RESULTS Lesions were detected in 99 of 504 patients (20%) by visual inspection, 72/504 (14%) by DART and 90/504 (18%) by...

Abnormal looking cervix, or suspicious cervix, is a common clinical condition seen in gynecological practice. Colposcopic examination of the cervix allows differentiation between physiologic changes that occur in response to normal cyclic variations in hormone secretion and a variety of structural and pathological conditions. This article addresses some of these common clinical problems and pro...

Abnormal looking cervix, or suspicious cervix, is a common clinical condition seen in gynecological practice. Colposcopic examination of the cervix allows differentiation between physiologic changes that occur in response to normal cyclic variations in hormone secretion and a variety of structural and pathological conditions. This article addresses some of these common clinical problems and pro...

OBJECTIVE To confirm the accuracy of the ThinPrep Pap Test (Cytyc Corp., Boxborough, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) on the basis of histologic diagnosis by biopsy and the detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in mass screening. STUDY DESIGN A total of 1,997 women residing in Xiangyuan County, Shanxi Province, P.R.C., an area with a high incidence of cervical carcinoma, were enrolled in this stu...

Vulvar pruritus is a common symptom in post-menopausal women and treatment is easy if the diagnosis is duly recognized. The purpose of this study is to show the importance of colposcopic examination and directed biopsies in 27 post-menopausal women with pruritus. Biopsy sites were selected by colposcopy. The prevalence of vulvar pruritus, vulvar pathologies, vulvar dystrophies and vulvar intrae...

AIMS To establish the value of examining additional histological levels in cone biopsy and large loop excision of the transformation zone (LLETZ) specimens of cervix. METHODS Three deeper levels were examined from 200 consecutive cone biopsy and LLETZ specimens reported by a single pathologist. RESULTS Examination of the first deeper level resulted in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN...

This paper presents a generalized statistical texture analysis technique for characterizing and recognizing typical, diagnostically most important, vascular patterns relating to cervical lesions from colposcopic images. Recognizing the fact that the texture patterns related to cervical lesions are primarily due to the vascular structures, the technique first extracts the vascular structures fro...

Coplanarity is a relationship of a set of points that exist on a single plane. Coplanarities can be easily observed in a scene with planer surfaces, and these types of coplanarities have been widely used for 3D reconstructions based on geometrical constraints. Other types of coplanarities that can be observed from images are those observed as cross sections of planes and scenes; for example, po...