BACKGROUND We have retrospectively assessed the incidence and outcome of women diagnosed during a hospital-based cytology screening program with "atypical squamous cells (ASC)" and followed-up with loop electrical excision procedure (LEEP). METHODS We analyzed 173,947 cases of cervical smears' follow-up cytology and histology findings. Previous or archival cytology with LEEP results were retr...

This study was undertaken to evaluate the overtreatment rate of women with abnormal cervical cytology undergoing colposcopy followed by loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP), the so-called "see and treat" approach. Overtreatment was defined as LEEP specimens containing cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 1 or less. In this study, medical records of 192 women with abnormal Pap smea...

The management of women with high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) and atypical glandular cells (AGC) cytological results is less controversial than the management of women with lower grade cytological abnormalities. In large part, this stems from the fact that women with both of these cytological results have a considerable risk of harboring a high-grade cervical intraepithelial ne...

Address correspondence to Steven I. Hajdu, M.D., 1759 Drumcliff Court, Westlake Village, CA 91361, USA; tel 805-496-0691; fax 805-496-0620 Condylomas (condylomata acuminata) and genital warts (verrucous papillomas) have been recognized as human diseases since ancient times [1]. The first microscopic illustration of the squamous cells of a verrucous lesion was published in 1845 [2]. In 1941, an ...

BACKGROUND Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been implicated as one of the principal causes of cervical cancer, which is the second highest cause of cancer deaths among Nigerian women. OBJECTIVE This study was aimed at determining the presence of HPV DNA in abnormal cervical cytology of a group of women who were screened using Papanicolaou staining technique. METHODOLOGY A total of 200 women a...

Objective: The high number of smear tests has a workload on pathologists/cytopathologists, which raises the concern for quality diagnoses. application high-risk human papillomavirus (hr-HPV) analyses with PAP begun to contribute clinical practice. In this study, we aimed show effect hr-HPV analysis results via atypical squamous cell/squamous intraepithelial lesion (ASC/SIL) ratio standards. Mat...

The entity of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) in The Bethesda System 2001 for reporting cervical cytology is characterized by equivocal diagnosis, poor reproducibility and debatable management. This retrospective study was done to analyse the causes of false ASCUS if any and identify the educational needs as part of quality assurance programme. Cervical smears of al...

subcutaneous panniculitis-like t-cell lymphoma (sptcl) is an infrequent cytotoxic t-cell lymphoma of the skin with a unique immunophenotypic profile. here we describe this lymphoma in a 30-year-old iranian woman. she presented with periorbital edema, mandibular swelling with edematous areas on her face and two small lymph nodes (6-7mm) in the cervical area. histopathological findings revealed l...

To determine the incidence of clinically significant lesions in long-term follow-up after a diagnosis of inadequate squamous cellularity using former and new criteria, we reviewed conventional Papanicolaou (Pap) smears (January-December 1998) for adequacy based on the Bethesda System 2001 criterion. Of 23,302 Pap smears evaluated in our laboratory, 114 (0.489%) were classified as unsatisfactory...

The association between cervical cancers and human papillomavirus (HPV) is now well established. To estimate the extent of infection with common HPVs among Korean women, we have examined 224 cervical scrapes of various cervical lesions. Detection and typing of HPVs were done by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using consensus primers followed by restriction enzyme digestion and PCR using type-sp...