LEEP in the family practice setting.

Good things still come in old packages: cryosurgery vs LEEP. Loop electrosurgical excision procedure.

Cervical cancer screening: Safety, acceptability, and feasibility of a single-visit approach in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is the commonest cancer amongst African women, and yet preventative services are often inadequate. AIM The purpose of the study was to assess the safety, acceptability and feasibility of visual inspection with acetic acid and cervicography (VIAC) followed by cryotherapy or a loop electrical excision procedure (LEEP) at a single visit for prevention of cancer of the ...

Treatment of cervical dysplasia with the Fischer cone biopsy excisor in a family medicine office: a case series.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of the Fischer cone biopsy excisor (FCBE) as the primary electrode for treatment of cervical dysplasia in a family medicine office. METHODS Retrospective analysis of cervical electrosurgical excision procedures in patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) performed in our Family Medicine Center between 2002 and 2005. RES...

Perioperative complications of an outpatient loop electrosurgical excision procedure: a review of 857 consecutive cases.

This study was conducted to evaluate the incidence and predictor of perioperative complications of the loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) in an outpatient setting at Chiang Mai University Hospital between October 2004 and December 2008. During this time period, 857 women were reviewed. Mean age was 45.1 years (range, 20-78 years). One-fourth of the women were postmenopausal. Eighty-...

Managing acutely aggressive or agitated people in a psychiatric setting: a survey in Lebanon

Background: Violent patients constitute 10% of all psychiatric admissions. Treatment options and clinical practice interventions vary across the globe and no survey of practice in a Middle Eastern setting exists. Surveying treatments in Lebanon will show treatment interventions used in this part of the world and, most importantly, provide the treatment options that could potentially be used for...