background cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. recent studies show that human papillomavirus (hpv) dna is present in all cervical carcinomas and in some cervicitis cases, with some geographical variation in viral subtypes. therefore determination of the presence of hpv in the general population of each region can help reveal the role of these viruses in tumors. ...

BACKGROUND Uterine cervix is most often reported as 'non specific cervicitis'. It is an effort to encourage specific reporting and thereby avoiding the term 'non specific' to a possible extent. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study is carried out on 613 specimens of uterine cervix received at Department of Pathology, Aarupadai Veedu Medical College, Pondicherry, between 1(st) January 2010 to 31(st)...

PURPOSE To investigate E-cadherin immunoexpression during cervical carcinogenesis. METHODS We assessed the immunohistochemical expression of E-cadherin in squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL - 52 cases), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the uterine cervix (23 cases) and also in eight cases of cervicitis. RESULTS The results show very different E-cadherin membrane expression levels when ce...

Objective. To assess willingness to participate and diagnostic accuracy of visual inspection for early detection of cervical neoplasia among women in a health insurance company. Patients and Method. Cervical cancer screening was systematically proposed to 800 women after consecutive information and awareness sessions. The screening method was visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) or Lugol's ...

What are they? In human health it is generally the case that the more people studied, and the longer the surveillance of them, the greater the number of new occurrences of any specified condition there are likely to be. This is because of the increase in total time ‘at risk’ of having an event, that is, the increased persons-and-time of observation. A rate is an arithmetic way of quantifying th...

Conclusion: Inflammatory lesions were the most common cervical lesions followed by malignancies. Among inflammatory lesions, chronic nonspecific cervicitis was commonly found followed by papillary endocervicitis seen in sexually active females with pelvic inflammatory disease, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, uterine prolapsed, and so on. The most common cervical malignancy was squamous-cell car...

The MR appearance of sclerosing cervicitis in the case presented is that of a fusiform mass arising in the lateral neck with vascular encasement. The mass is mildly hyperintense to skeletal muscle on the T1- and T2-weighted images.

Demographic data A cross sectional sample of 1879 consecutive new female clients, aged 13–49 years, in a basic health clinic in Dhaka, Bangladesh, between 1996 and 1998 (98% Moslim, 98% married, and 2% widowed/divorced/ separated) was studied. They were grouped as follows: antenatal care (AC, n=243), family planning (FP, n=555), pregnancy interruption (PI, n=592), expanded programme on immunisa...

PURPOSE To determine the prevalence of HPV 16, 18, 31 and 45 in cervical screening samples of women with cellular changes and/or colposcopy suggestive of persistent high grade or low grade lesion who were submitted to conization. METHODS A total of 120 women were included in the study. Histological analysis of the cervical cones revealed 7 cases of cervicitis, 22 of CIN1, 31 of CIN2, 54 of CI...