Cytological pattern of cervical papanicolaou smear in eastern region of Saudi Arabia

Balaha, Magdy Hassan; Moghannum, Mohammed Saleh Al; Ghowinem, Naema Al; Omran, Souad Al

doi:10.4103/0970-9371.86343

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“…Also at variance with our study is a normal smear rate of 94.5% in USA, which helps to explain that routine screening and other preventive measures when implemented, helps to achieve great results. 14 The rates of inflammatory smear in Saudi Arabia 12 and india 13 are high (48.3% and 57.4%) when compared to that in our study (14.6%), but the rate of premalignant lesion in our study may be a guide to the fact that other co-carcinogens apart from infections may abound in our environment and may be responsible for the high rate of premalignant lesions.…”

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“…The prevalence rates published in previous studies ranged from 1.66-7.9% [22][23][24]. Studies done on the prevalence of epithelial cell abnormality have shown 4.3% in Kuwait [25] 7.9% in South west Saudi Arabia [19] and 4.95% in Eastern Saudi Arabia [26]. These studies showed an overall prevalence of the epithelial abnormalities similar to the current study.…”

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Study of vaginal cytology in reproductive age group women attending tertiary care teaching hospital

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Introduction: Lesions of the cervix are the commonest causes of chronic ill health in gynecological practices. The cervix is a specially modified part of uterus with a histological and physiological entity of its own. It probably constitutes the most neglected and damaged part of female body. The accurate study of these vaginal and cervical lesions are needed because of chronic disability of the patient in the form of low backache, vaginal discharge, primary or secondary sterility and later predisposition to malignancy. Material and Methods: A total of 200 smears were studied from 200 women of reproductive age group attending gynecological outpatient department and antenatal clinic of Tertiary care teaching hospital of central India who complained of symptoms like backache, discharge, and irregular vaginal bleeding. A detailed clinical and vaginal examination was done in every case and smears were collected for exfoliative cytology. Analysis of results was done by Odds ratio and multivariate logistic regression. Results: 200 clinically diagnosed cases of benign lesions of cervix were taken up for detailed clinical and cytological study. Erosion was the commonest among all benign lesions, which was 58.5%. Next common lesion was chronic cervicitis (20%) &chronic cervicitis with erosion (9%) on cytological examination. Conclusions: Nonmalignant cervical lesions are extremely common. Cervical erosion and non-specific cervicitis are most frequently encountered. These are frequent cause of morbidity in women of reproductive age group, which if neglected progresses to malignancy with significant morbidity and mortality. Close follow up and histiologic examinations are necessary to avoid unnecessary spread of neoplastic disease and untimely death of patients. Awareness about diseases in women of reproductive age group and diagnostic utility of papanicolau smear test is also a must.

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“…15 Study conducted by Balaha et al mean age of 45 years for ASCUS, 35.8 years for HSIL. 16 While Gupta et al showed predominance of ASCUS, LSIL in less than 40 years and Carcinoma in >40 years age group. 8 Study by Saraiya U et al found mean age of 32.5 years, 37.5 years and 44.2 years for mild, moderate and squamous cell carcinoma.…”

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Cervical cytology by pap smear in reproductive population

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Khan

2018

Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol

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INTRODUCTIONWorldwide cervical cancer comprises approximately 12% of all cancers in women with an incidence of five lakh new cases reported each year of which almost one fourth of it occurs in India.1 About 1,22,844 new cervical cancer cases are diagnosed annually in India and 67,477 cervical cancer deaths have been reported annually in India.2 It is the second most common cancer in women worldwide but the commonest in developing countries like India. It accounts for 80% of deaths in developing countries like India.3 Cervical screening is currently acknowledged as the most effective approach for cervical cancer control. The dramatic reduction in the incidence of cervical cancer in developed countries is because of widespread use of an effective cytological screening test which can identify the premalignant and malignant lesions of the uterine cervix, which cannot be detected or even suspected by history and clinical examination. 4 Early detection of cervical abnormality at prompt time is the early need for the gynecologist, so as to prevent its progression to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and invasive cancer thereafter. The factors like easy accessibility of cervix, propensity of cervical epithelial cells to exfoliate, rapid turnover of epithelial cells, evidence of wide spectrum of histological changes ABSTRACTBackground: The present hospital-based study was conducted to study the incidence of various cervical epithelial abnormalities such as infection, dysplasia and early cervical cancer changes in reproductive age population and its correlation with age, parity, socioeconomic status, clinical symptoms and cervical biopsy findings. Methods: A prospective study was conducted in 300 women of reproductive age group. The cervical smear was taken from all patients by means of the scrape technique using the Ayre's spatula. Pap smear results were considered as positive (abnormal) when they are ASCUS, LSIL, HSIL or Invasive lesion. On persistence of unhealthy cervix/inflammatory smear after a course of antibiotic, direct cervical punch biopsy was taken. Results: Inflammatory smears were seen in 88.0%, ASCUS in 5%, LSIL in 1.4%, HSIL in 0.3% and invasive carcinoma in 0.3% patients. Direct cervical punch biopsy was taken from 13 cases out of 264 with inflammatory smear. Most of these patients had cervicitis (12 cases) while 1 case showed CIN stage 2. All cases of ASCUS and LSIL had infection which showed chronic cervicitis on biopsy. HSIL and Invasive carcinoma showed CIN stage 2 and Carcinoma as their biopsy findings. Conclusions:The Pap smear is a simple, safe, practical and cost-effective method for early detection of cervical cancer and its precursors. In developing countries like India, it is the most logical screening modality although it has a very low sensitivity, but detection rates could be further improved using liquid-based cytology and the use of endocervical cytobrush.

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Cytological pattern of cervical papanicolaou smear in eastern region of Saudi Arabia

Cited by 30 publications

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Cervical Cancer Screening In Benin City, South-South Nigeria

Cervical Cancer Screening In Benin City, South-South Nigeria

Study of vaginal cytology in reproductive age group women attending tertiary care teaching hospital

Cervical cytology by pap smear in reproductive population

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