BACKGROUND Only about one in seven visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA)-positive women has high-grade disease; further confirmatory testing could rule out false positives. OBJECTIVES To determine if visual inspection with Lugol's iodine (VILI) or visual inspection with acetic acid and magnification (VIAM) can accurately confirm the presence of disease among rural Kenyan women referred to ...

Objective: To access the accuracy of visual inspection methods for diagnosing cervical dysplasia. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out between 1st December 2016 and 30th April 2017. All cases positive to Visual Inspections with Acetic acid (VIA) or Lugol’s Iodine (VILI) as well macroscopic abnormal cervices, irrespective results inspection, had a colposcopy-directed biopsy. Resul...

Screening is the basic practice in cancer prevention for cervical cancer. In the gynecology field, there are several alternative techniques for screening for pre-cancerous lesions for cervical cancer, including the Pap smear, visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA), human papilloma virus (HPV) DNA testing and combined Pap smear and VIA. In this work, the author focused on cost effectiveness an...

Thanks to intensive research over the past two decades into viable prevention strategies that can work even in the lowest-resource com munities, we now have an extraordinary opportunity to address cervical cancer in developing countries, where 80% of the mortality occurs. These prevention strategies include visual inspection with acetic acid, human papillomavirus (HPV) testing (both linked to t...

OBJECTIVE Evaluation of visual inspection of the cervix with acetic acid (VIA) for screening cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. METHODS In this prospective study, 400 women were screened using the Papanicolaou (PAP) smear, VIA and colposcopy. Those who had positive results with any of the screening methods underwent large loop excision of the transformation zone (LLETZ). The sensitivity and ...