AIMS To increase the sensitivity of an automated chlamydia enzyme immunoassay by significantly lowering its cut off value, and to maintain specificity by confirmation with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and direct immunofluorescent antibody test (DFA). METHODS Over five months, the cut off value of the enzyme immunoassay used to screen urogenital samples for chlamydia antigen was reduced fro...

This retrospective study refers to the evolution rate of cervical lesions diagnosed from cervical biopsies, respectively the endocervical scrape collected from 2001 to 2008 and found its place as an introduction to a further complex study. In this period of 8 years, in our laboratory were processed a total of 1387 biopsies and endocervical scrape. All histopathological diagnoses can be classifi...

Urethral and endocervical swabs and self-collected vaginal swabs (SCVSs) and urine specimens are all used as samples for diagnosis of urogenital infection with Chlamydia trachomatis. We have now determined chlamydial organism load in matched specimens from different anatomic sites and examined its relation to clinical signs and symptoms in men and women. Organism load was measured with assays b...

THE PRESENCE of tissue-specific antigen in various mucins has been demonstrated in a number of studies (Bara et al., 1977; Hillermanns, 1962; Nairn et al., 1962). Antibodies to mucins from alimentary tract can be readily produced and shown by immunofluorescence to localize to endosecretory parts of the epithelial cells. More recently, Gold & Miller (1978) showed that, while common gastrointesti...

The accuracy of conization for the prediction of radical hysterectomy (RH) pathological variables in patients with stage Ia2 to Ib1 (≤2 cm) cervical cancer was retrospectively evaluated in the present study. Endocervical or deep resection margin (RM) involvement in the conization specimens was found to be independently associated with residual disease in the hysterectomy specimens (P < 0.001, =...

Cervical adenomyomas of endocervical type (endocervical adenomyomas) are very rare benign lesions. Here we report the case of a 33-year-old woman who referred to the Perinatology Clinic of Ommolbanin Hospital (Mashhad, Iran) in September 2017. The patient was 8 weeks pregnant and complained of spotting and feeling a mass protruding from her vagina for 2 months. Physical examination revealed the...

June 29, 2011 The patient was a 30 year old female patient, para 0, who was diagnosed to have a cervical adenocarcinoma on a screening PAP smear. A subsequent endocervical curettage revealed a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma with focal invasion. She underwent a cone biopsy and a repeated endocervical curettage which revealed an adenocarcinoma in situ with two foci of microinvasion cons...