OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and safety of a 7-day course of treatment with oral grepafloxacin, 400 mg once daily, and oral doxycycline, 100 mg twice daily, in patients with chlamydial cervicitis. METHODS Women aged 18 years or older attending 17 sexually transmitted disease clinics in the United States who had clinical signs of mucopurulent cervicitis or who had a recent positive cultur...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting women worldwide. It is well established that human papilloma virus (HPV) infection is the prime risk factor in the development of cervical cancer. The current screening and diagnostic tests have limitations in identifying the range of lesions caused by HPV. The current study aims to evaluate the diagnostic value of p16 immun...

OBJECTIVE To test the recommendation from the Canadian guidelines for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) that mucopurulent endocervical discharge and 10 or more polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) per high-power field of a Gram-stained endocervical smear or, when Gram staining is not possible, the presence of endocervical discharge and one of edema, erythema or induced mucosal bleeding of the...

Considering the crucial significance of the tumor microenvironment in cancer development and progression, the present study aimed to investigate the changes in macrophages and angiogenesis during the cervical cancer (CC) progression process from chronic cervicitis to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grades I-III (CIN I-III) to CC. This investigation included quantitative analysis and assessme...

Objective. To assess willingness to participate and diagnostic accuracy of visual inspection for early detection of cervical neoplasia among women in a health insurance company. Patients and Method. Cervical cancer screening was systematically proposed to 800 women after consecutive information and awareness sessions. The screening method was visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) or Lugol's ...

A PRE-CANCEROUS lesion is one which is pronie to become malignant. A comparatively large ntiml)er of lesions of this kind are recognized in superficial structures-for example, arseniical and X-ray dlermatitis, leukoplakia vulvw, leukoplakia lingu?e, chlronic cervicitis and erosion of the cervix, and "chronic cystic mastitis." Even in these lesions, however, the incidence of malignant (lisease i...

To analyze Survivin, MMP-2, and MMP-9 expression in different types of cervical lesions and discuss their correlation and clinical significance. Patients with chronic cervicitis, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, or cervical cancer in our hospital were collected. ELISA was applied to detect the level of Survivin, MMP-2 and MMP-9 in serum. Immunohistochemistry was used to measure Survivin, MMP...

The overall agreement between different criteria for cervicitis in women infected with Chlamydia trachomatis and/or Mycoplasma genitalium, and in women who tested negative was examined. Women attending a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases were enrolled because of sexual partners' suspected chlamydia infection. M. genitalium was tested in a sample of first-catch urine and an endocervical s...