BACKGROUND Cancer of the cervix is the commonest malignancy of the genital tract in Nigeria. In an atmosphere of opportunistic screening due to lack of a national screening programme, studies are needed to determine patients at risk of premalignant lesions of the cervix. GOAL To determine cervical smear pattern in patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease and investigate the potential...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer continues to be a major problem in Bangladesh with approximately 18,000 new cases annually of which over 10,000 women die from it. Visual inspection of the cervix after 3-5% acetic acid (VIA) application is a simple and easy to learn method for cervical cancer screening, although cytology-based screening is more often applied in developed countries where it has succes...

For cervical cancer detection, the performance of multispectral texture (MST) features extracted from multispectral Pap smear images is evaluated. In this study we carried out pairwise comparisons between different image features, including MST versus average spectral texture features (AST, without spectral information), and MST versus multispectral intensity features (MSI, without texture info...

Since it was first shown (Papanicolaou and Traut, 1941) that the cytological examination of vaginal secretions could reveal unsuspected gynaecological cancer, various techniques for obtaining suitable cellular preparations have been suggested. Davis (1962) introduced the irrigation smear, using a disposable plastic pipette (cytopipette) containing a cell-preserving fluid. The fluid is ejected i...

This study aims to determine the diagnostic values of visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and Pap smear in a cervical cancer screening program at a community level in Vietnam. A cross-sectional analysis was obtained, including 1034 women of reproductive age from Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam from 09/2012 to 09/2013. Samples were taken from cervixes for Pap smear testing, followed by vis...

Background: Cervical cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide. Persistent infection with a high risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) is the main etiological factor, so that early early detection of HR-HPV is very important. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of CareTM HPV, a new method, as compared with Pap smear, PCR, and biopsy for screening purpo...

The aim of this study was to evaluate medical and economic justification of vaginal smears as a part of primary screening for cervical carcinoma and its precursors. Study included 245.048 participants whose VCE (vaginal, cervical, endocervical) smears were examined at Department of clinical cytology of University Hospital Center Osijek from 2003 till 2008. There were 12.639 (5.2%) abnormal find...