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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"colposcopy"”.
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Barriers and facilitators to colposcopy attendance following an abnormal pap smear: patient and provider perspectives
… (Pap) smears are appropriately investigated. Colposcopy attendance following an abnormal Pap smear is a major problem in South Africa. The aim of this study was to explore barriers and facilitators to colposcopy attendance following an abnormal Pap smear result. A qualitative study was …
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The natural history of low grade squamuous intra-epithelial lesions (LSIL) in women attending Groote Schuur Hospital Colposcopy Clinic
… negative women to determine patient adherence to colposcopy clinic in women with LSIL Methods: This is a retrospective, descriptive, cohort study of women who were referred to the colposcopy clinic with a cytological diagnosis of LSIL and followed for a minimum period of 2 years. Data was …
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Look and Leep: How are we doing? An audit of GSH colposcopy clinic from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2021
… is to identify the rate of overtreatment at a colposcopy clinic in a tertiary center with extensive experience in colposcopy and to detect possible factors associated with this rate. Methods: This was a retrospective, descriptive cohort study that analyzed data from 715 women who had undergone …
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Quantitative spectroscopy for detection of cervical dysplasia
… standard for cervical cancer diagnosis is colposcopy, a procedure that involves visual inspection and biopsy of at-risk tissue, followed by histopathology. The major objective of colposcopy is detection of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), which are precancerous lesions …
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Development of Low-Cost Technologies for Cervical Cancer Prevention in Low-Resource Settings
… limited health care resources. At the same time colposcopy, which is standard for detecting high-grade cervical precancer and cancer in high-income countries, also has a low specificity. The first part of this thesis work focused on the evaluation of high-resolution microendoscopy (HRME) as a …
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Long-term outcomes of women treated for high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions at a University Hospital colposcopy unit in South Africa. A 5-year retrospective cohort study
… on the performance of the current cytology and colposcopy-based programmes. This study was done to establish baseline data on the performance of the cytology and colposcopy based cervical cancer screening programme at the Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) colposcopy clinic. METHODS: This was a …
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Automated analysis of digital medical images in cervical cancer screening: A systematic review
… with cytology examination then a referral for colposcopy follows if the cytology screening test is abnormal. Thereafter, histopathology examination is conducted on biopsy specimen collected during colposcopy. Biopsy specimen are only collected when suspicious lesions are observed during …
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Detecting cervical dysplasia with quantitative spectroscopic imaging
… to improved accuracy, QSI used as an adjunct to colposcopy can potentially reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies over colposcopy alone. The results also suggest a simplified optical instrument can be used to detect HSIL and this may advance cervical dysplasia detection in developing …
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The impact of positive margins and crypt involvement in excisional procedures of the cervix on recurrence rates of premalignant diseases of the cervix
… METHODS In this retrospective review of the colposcopy database, patient records and pathology database, women who had cervical excisional procedures at the Groote Schuur Hospital colposcopy clinic in 2010 were followed up until 2015. Recurrence was based on high grade cytology or histology …
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New Clinical Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screening and the Benefits of Implementing a Primary High-risk Human Papillomavirus Test in a High Volume Reference Laboratory
… Cancer Society(ACS), American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), American Society for Clinical Pathology(ASCP), and the United States Preventative Service Task Force (USPSTF) agreed co-testing with cytology based Papanicolaou smear (Pap smear) and molecular based …
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Feasibility Study of Liquid-Based Cytology for Post-Treatment Surveillance of Patients with Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia
<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Colposcopy and tissue biopsy remain the gold standard for diagnosing vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN). Vulvar colposcopy is fairly nonspecific. As a result, many women undergo unwarranted painful biopsies. Vulvar cytology, which is relatively painless, …
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Hygiena Study: audit of women managed with Cone Biopsy at Groote Schuur Hospital from 1st April 2013 to 31st October 2015
… of the cervix, at Groote Schuur Hospital Colposcopy Clinic between 1st April 2010 and 31st October 2013. METHODS: A group of women attending the colposcopy clinic, and requiring cone biopsies between 1st April 2010 and 31st October 2013 were identified from a computerized database, known …
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Comparative analysis of cervical disease progression in HIV positive women receiving ART and those not receiving ART in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2002 to 2011
… from two primary health care clinics and one colposcopy clinic, in Cape Town, South Africa. Enrolment into the study was dependent on cervical screening naivety. At the time of enrolment, ART was not available to these women. However, as ART was rolled out in South Africa, women meeting ART …
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Histological outcome of atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (asc-h) papanicolaou smears diagnosed at Groote Schuur hospital
… risk cervical changes and expedite follow-up colposcopy, biopsy and management has been proven.
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Expressão do fator inibitório da migração de macrófagos e do fator de permeabilidade vascular em lesões da cérvice uterina induzidas pelo papilomavírus humano
… were collected from the women who underwent colposcopy, one for histopathological analysis and the other for HPV detection by conventional PCR. The expression of the biomarkers, MIF and VEGF, was detected by the immunohistochemical technique. The positive area of each biomarker was read and …
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Clients' returning for cervical screening results : a focus group study exploring the reasons why women spontaneously return for their results at the Khayelitsha Cervical Cancer Screening Project
… to the traditional approach of cytology, colposcopy, biopsy and treatment, specifically, a "screen and treat" approach. This approach is expected to overcome some of the many barriers to women participating in screening programmes. This study aims to investigate the phenomenon of the high …
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The Effect of Progesterone Only Contraception on the Accuracy of Cervical Cytologic interpretation
<p>Abstract Introduction: Papanicolaou screening is the standard of care for the detection of abnormal cervical cells. Early detection and treatment of cervical neoplasia depends on the accurate interpretation of the cytologic sample. Diagnosis of dysplasia is made by histology interpretation to …
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Concordancia entre citologia cervico vaginal anormal, colposcopia y biopsia de cervix de usuarias de la Clinica Colombia
El cáncer de cuello uterino, es una de las principales causas de morbimortalidad por cáncer a nivel mundial, el cual se perfila como un problema de salud pública; que gracias a la introducción de la toma de citología cervico vaginal como prueba de tamizaje, para detección temprana de cáncer de …