OBJECTIVE This study was performed to evaluate the clinical performance of APTIMA human papillomavirus (AHPV) assay and Hybrid Capture 2 (HC2) assay in screening for cervical disease, especially in women with atypical squamous cell of undetermined significance (ASC-US) and low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL). METHODS A total of 411 women diagnosed with ASC-US or LSIL were referre...

Introduction: The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the main risk factor related to cervical cancer, the third most frequent type of cancer in Brazilian women. Early identification of high-risk HPV types in the normal cervix, or cervix with premalignant lesions may help prevent the progression of these lesions to cancer. Objective: This study aimed to detect and genotype HPV in women with low-grade...

Cervical carcinoma is most common in Indian women of which Rural are predominantly affected. The etiological factor human papillomavirus (HPV ). present study aims to assess the diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and different patterns cervical Pap smears by comparing histological findings. index a retrospective cross-sectional analytical study. data was collected at pathology depar...

Liquid Based Cytology (LBC) has replaced Papanicolaou standard cytology due to its practical advantages. Our study aimed to analyze the diagnosis correlations and differences between the conventional and liquid based cytology. The study group has been composed by 104 patients, diagnosed in the Laboratory of Cytology, Galati County Hospital, Romania by using both methods on the same patients gro...

A) Verruca vulgaris B) Actinic keratosis C) Bowenoid papulosis D) Seborrheic keratosis E) Acanthoma High-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion of the oral commissure (bowenoid papulosis). Citation: Kupetsky EA, Charles CA, Mones J. High-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion of the oral commissure (bowenoid papulosis). A case and review. Copyright: ©2015 Kupetsky et al. This is an open-access ar...

Human papillomavirus (HPV)infection consists the majority of cervical precancerous lesions and cancers. Various screening programmes aim in indentifying HPV infection preventing cancer. We present a 20-year-old female patient whose first pap smear revealed atypical squamous cells undetermined significance (ASCUS). Pap smear, followed by genotyping evaluation, high-risk 33 infiltration. Colposco...

The performance of endocervical curettage (ECC) is a dispute in population screening programs. Data of 3,460 women referred to colposcopy examination and had completed pathological results in the Shanxi Province Cervical Cancer Screening Study I and II were reviewed. Among them, 0.6% and 2.7% women were identified as the histopathological confirmed high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion or ...

ABSTRACT
 Objective: The aim of our study is to compare the clinical data and colposcopy- directed biopsy (CDB) results atypical squamous cell undetermined significance (ASC-US) low-grade intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) cytology among high risk human papilloma virus (hrHPV) positive women.
 Materials Methods: A total 359 hrHPV-positive patients with ASC-US LSIL cytology, between 20-67 y...

PURPOSE To determine the accuracy of visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) in detecting high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in pre- and post-menopausal women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC-US) and low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) Papanicolaou (Pap) smears. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two hundred women (150 pre-menopausal and 50 post...