BACKGROUND A screening programme for cervical cancer has been implemented in South Africa (SA) with intervals of 10 years after a normal cytological result. There are no studies that evaluate repeat screening at a shorter interval in SA. OBJECTIVES (i) To find the incidence of cytological abnormalities on a repeat test after a report of normal cytology or an inadequate Pap smear; and (ii) to ...

OBJECTIVE Munich Nomenclature III for cervical smear evaluation also known as Papanicolaou (Pap) smear was launched in Germany in July 2014, and it is the only used system in Germany. The study aims at a method comparison between the previously used nomenclature Munich II and the currently used Munich III. MATERIAL AND METHODS A method comparison was performed by analyzing 117 Pap smear sampl...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of Pap smear abnormalities and to characterize the associated risk factors in HIV seropositive women. MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study on 252 HIV seropositive women in and around Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India by screening them for cervical cytological abnormalities by means of conventional Pap smear screening and the abnor...

PAPANICOLAOU (PAP) SMEAR screening for cervical cancer, introduced in the 1940s, has become a widely accepted cancer screening test. High rates of screening are the rule in all industrialized nations, and the number of cases and deaths from cervical cancer has decreased substantially since the introduction of screening. In the United States, all women have historically been considered eligible ...

Introduction: The present work was planned to compare the results of different diagnostic procedures cervical Pap smear, HPV DNA testing, colposcopy directed biopsy or conventional cervical biopsy and evaluating their correlation for final diagnosis of cervical neoplasia. Methodology: A prospective observational study was carried out on 100 patients attending the Gynaecology OPD of Calcutta Nat...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of Gram stain versus Pap smear in diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis (BV). METHODS One-thousand and sixty women were enrolled in this study. All cases with symptoms of BV were determined by Amsel's criteria, which were accepted as the gold standard for diagnosis of BV. Pap smear and Gram stain evaluations were compared accor...

OBJECTIVES To assess visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) as a screening tool for use in a well-equipped health center in Peru, to evaluate VIA as an alternative or adjunct to the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear, and to determine if VIA can play a role in settings other than low-resource ones. METHODS This was a prospective study of 1 921 asymptomatic women living in Lima, Peru, carried out in 1...

Cervical cancer is the third most frequently diagnosed cancer worldwide, the fourth leading cause of cancer death in females in 2008. This study aim to assess cervical cancer risk factors and screening behaviors (Pap Smear test and endovaginal sonography) among women in Taif city, Saudi Arabia. Subjects and Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study was used during the period from October 2014...

INTRODUCTION Retrospective evaluation of cervical smear results of women who attended our gynecology policlinics with various symptoms and discussion of the results in the light of the literature. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a retrospective investigation on 37,438 Pap smear results of women who attended our hospital between January 2011 and December 2012 with a variety of symptoms. RE...