INTRODUCTION Fallopian tube prolapse (FTP) is a rare but increasingly recognized postoperative complication of total hysterectomy, but few reports relate FTP to supracervical hysterectomy. CASE A 35-year-old, G2P2, patient with a history of recurrent fibroid prolapse received a supracervical hysterectomy. One week postoperatively, she was treated for infection, and 1 month later a scheduled ...

PURPOSE To obtain reliable estimates of the sensitivity and specificity of the cervical Papanicolaou (Pap) smear and wet mount to diagnose vaginal trichomoniasis. METHODS Articles indexed in MEDLINE (1976-1998) about diagnostic tests for trichomoniasis and their listed references were retrieved. Thirty studies (9,501 patients) that used trichomonas culture as a gold standard were selected. St...

Minimal deviation adenocarcinoma (MDA) is a rare neoplasm characterized by difficult diagnosis, no standard treatment and poor prognosis. This accounts for 1 to 3% of all cervical adenocarcinoma, the mean age patients at time diagnosis 45 years old. It has characteristic endophytic growth pattern; conventional methods cancer screening frequently fail. Here we report case 44-year-old woman that ...

A four-year old, 26.5 kg, Boxer bitch was presented to the Department of Reproduction in the Clinic of Dogs and Cats with a six month history of vulvar swelling and vaginal discharge. General gynaecological examination showed an extremely swollen, oedematous and tough-elastic highly irritable vulva. A vaginal smear revealed the presence of superficial cells and red blood cells. After repeated u...

OBJECTIVE To correlate cervical cytology with Cervical histology. METHODOLOGY A hospital based prospective study was carried out in consecutive total forty-three patient attending oncology clinic of Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Sinamangal, Nepal from 1st Bhadra 2061 to end of Falgun 2061 (18th August 2004-12th February 2005) during authors posting in this clinic. All patients ...

OBJECTIVE Cervical cancer screening usually requires use of a speculum to provide a clear view of the cervix. The speculum is one potential barrier to screening due to fear of pain, discomfort and embarrassment. The aim of this paper is to present and demonstrate the feasibility of a tampon-sized inserter and the POCkeT Colposcope, a miniature pen sized-colposcope, for comfortable, speculum-fre...

Introduction: Bacterial vaginosis is defined as change in the vaginal ecology characterized by replacement of lactobacilli by a variety of bacterial flora including anaerobes. The condition is diagnosed using Amsel Criteria. Ten to fifteen percent of cases do not improve on antibiotics, which encouraged the use of probiotics. Aim: To compare between the efficiency of probiotic vaginal tampons a...

Seventy-four postmenopausal women presenting with vaginal atrophy were treated with either Ovestin vaginal cream (Group A, 23 women: 1 mg/day E3; Group B, 30 women: 0.5 mg/day E3) or vaginal suppositories (Group C, 21 women: 0.5 mg/day E3), applied daily for 3 wk (A and B) or 2 wk (C) before retiring. Ten women from A and 10 from B applied a maintenance dose (1 application twice weekly) during ...

INTRODUCTION Microbial infections of the vagina in pregnant women are health problems that lead to serious medical complications and consequences. This study aimed to investigate and determine antimicrobial susceptibilities of the causative agents of vaginal infections in pregnant women. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional study of pregnant women (n = 200) was conducted between August and December ...