■ EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER Conclusions regarding the ThinPrep are difficult to make due to the complexity of cervical cancer screening and the lack of adequate outcomebased data. However, current evidence supports the following: the ThinPrep is more sensitive than the conventional Papanicolaou (Pap) smear at detecting cervical cancer (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A–, based on 1 large validati...

BACKGROUND Fractal geometry has been the basis for the development of a diagnosis of preneoplastic and neoplastic cells that clears up the undetermination of the atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS). METHODS Pictures of 40 cervix cytology samples diagnosed with conventional parameters were taken. A blind study was developed in which the clinic diagnosis of 10 normal ce...

 Abstract Background: Cervical cancer is the most common female genital tract malignancy and is the major cause of death from gynecologic cancer worldwide. The majority of cervical cancers develop through a series of gradual, precancerous lesions. Screening asymptomatic women with regular Pap smears allows diagnosis of the readily treatable preinvasive phase. We performed this study to determin...

background and objective: the aim of this study was to compare the screening performance of a new modified liquid-based cytology method (liquiprep™) with conventional pap smear (cp) in a low risk population, using colposcopy followed by histology as “gold standard”. patients and methods:  this cross-sectional study was performed on random referred specimens to a general gynecological clinic in ...

HIV-infected women have higher rates of persistence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, of abnormal cervical cytology results, and of cervical cancer than uninfected women. It is currently recommended that HIV-infected, sexually active women have a Papanicolaou (Pap) test performed at the time of initial diagnosis of HIV infection, followed by annual Pap testing if the previous test result...

Atypical squamous lesion (ASL), a histologic diagnosis of unclear significance in the uterine cervix, can be divided into neoplastic and nonneoplastic groups. We aimed to determine the morphologic characteristics of these 2 groups. Histologic and immunohistochemical features were evaluated on the original biopsy specimen from 37 ASL cases, and the results were compared between neoplastic (19 ca...

OBJECTIVE Cervical carcinoma is an important women's health problem in the Western countries. There are only few published data on this disease in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The aim of this study is to evaluate the abnormal cytological entities detected by cervical Pap smear in Western region of KSA and to discuss the importance of Pap smears screening programs. METHODS Retrospective ...

HE yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae normally alternates between haploT phase and diplophase, propagating vegetatively primarily as a diploid (WINCE 1935). SUBRAMANIAM and coworkers ( SUBRAMANIAM and KRISHNA MURTHY 1949; MITRA and SUBRAMANIAM 1949 ; SUBRAMANIAM 1951) have reported the production of tetraploids by the exposure of diploid yeast to acenaphthene and chrysene. Their data lack any genet...

Squamous cell carcinoma may present with atypical peripheric nerve symptoms. Lung cancers are the second most common cancer which metastasize to the brachial plexus. Metastatic brachial plexopathy (BP) is almost always unilateral. We document MR images of a case with squamous cell lung cancer presenting as bilateral metastatic BP. Although very rare, bilateral plexopathy may be the presenting s...