Squamous cervical cancer (which comprises 95% of all cervical cancers) is completely preventable if its precancerous stages of dysplasia, carcinoma in situ (now called cervical intraepithelial neoplasia), or microinvasive cancer are detected and treated. Detection is relatively simple and entails analysis of a sample of cells exfoliated within the ectocervix and endocervix. Exfoliative cytology...

Pigmented lesions of the cervix are a rarity. Blue nevus occurs as an incidental finding in cervix in hysterectomy specimens from middle aged women. This condition is more appropriately called ‘Focal Stromal Melanocytosis” as the findings are more analogous to dermal melanocytosis rather than to cutaneous blue nevi. There are only a couple of reports of cervical blue nevi in the Indian literatu...

AETIOLOGY AND TRANSMISSION † Gonorrhoea (meaning ‘flow of seed’) and its related clinical manifestations are caused by infection with the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; † Infection predominantly involves the columnar epithelium of the urethra, endocervix, rectum, pharynx and conjunctivae. Although it usually remains localized to the initial sites of infection, it can ascend the genital tract ...

Silver binding nucleolar regions (AgNORs) were evaluated in normal endocervix, adenocarcinoma, and its potential precursor, adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS), in an attempt to increase an understanding of the natural history of cervical adenocarcinoma and to identify a marker for abnormal endocervical (atypical glandular) cells which could aid diagnosis and follow up of endocervical lesions. For eve...