background: atrophic vaginitis is a disease, which affects up to 50% of postmenopausal women. this study compared the effectiveness and user-friendliness of vagifem (an estradiol vaginal tablet) and vaginal estrogen cream in the treatment of atrophic vaginitis. materials and methods: one hundred and  sixty postmenopausal women with symptoms of atrophic  vaginitis were randomly divided into two ...

introduction:oral lichen planus(olp)is a chronic mucocutaneus disease with an immunological etiology. this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of cedar honey in treatment of erosive- atrophic olp.materials and methods: thirty patients with confirmed clinical and histopathologic of olp participated in a randomized clinical trial in mashhad dental school.patients were randomly allocated in...

background: currently, non-invasive methods for screening atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer are lacking. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the value of serological parameters including serum pepsinogen i (pgi), pepsinogen ii (pgii) and pepsinogen i: ii ratio for the screening atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer.   methods : the study population consisted of 132 dyspeptic patients ...

OBJECTIVE Vaginal atrophy in menopause shows increased parabasal cells on cytology. This may be accompanied by abundant neutrophils. A shift in maturation index in the absence of significant inflammation is more accurately termed "atrophic pattern." This study aims to determine whether a diagnosis of "atrophic vaginitis" or atrophic pattern on Papanicolaou test is a reliable indicator of what i...

BACKGROUND Atrophic gastritis is a precancerous condition, which can be diagnosed by several methods. However, there is no consensus for the standard method. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlations among endoscopic, histologic, and serologic findings for the diagnosis of atrophic gastritis. METHODS From March 2003 to August 2013, a total of 2,558 subjects were enrolled. Endosco...