Morphological spectrum of non-neoplastic lesions of the uterine cervix in Warri, South-South, Nigeria

Nwachokor, F N; Forae, GD

doi:10.4103/1119-3077.116883

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“…In this study, the second predominant cervical disease was non-cancerous lesion; among them 53.6% of them was chronic nonspecific cervicitis. Similar study that is conducted in Nigeria, chronic nonspecific cervicitis was the most commonly encountered lesion constituting 72.2% of cervical inflammatory lesions [ 28 ]. Similarly, result that is observed in Puducherry, India was high which accounts 89.23% of cervicitis [ 29 ].…”

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Characteristics of cervical disease among symptomatic women with histopathological sample at Hawassa University referral hospital, Southern Ethiopia

Ameya

Yerakly

2017

BMC Women's Health

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BackgroundCervical cancer is one of the most common cancers of women in developing countries. It is also eminent cause of mortality and morbidity in women worldwide. Symptoms usually develop when the cancer has become invasive and invade nearby tissue. This has significant effect on treatment of cases in area where there is limited awareness. The aim of this study is to describe cervical disease among symptomatic women with a histhological sample at Hawassa University referral hospital, southern Ethiopia.MethodsFive years retrospective histopathological characteristics of symptomatic cervical cases were studied from January, 2010 to January, 2015 at Hawassa University referral hospital pathology laboratory. Clinical diagnosis of patients, patient’s age, biopsy sample size and type, and microscopic finding of the cases were collected for this study. The data were entered by Epi-Info statistical software version 7 and later exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Descriptive analyses such as frequency, mean, and standard deviation were computed.ResultsA total of 513 patients with cervical lesion were examined histopathologically in the study period. The age ranges of the patients were from 17 to 85 years with mean and standard deviation of 42 ± 11 years. Of these symptomatic examined cases, 253 (49.3%) of them were cancerous lesion while non cancerous and precancerous cases account 166 (32.4%) and 51 (9.9%) respectively. Cervical squamous cell carcinoma was the predominant type cancer which accounts 211(83.4%) of all cancerous cervical cases. The proportion of cervical cancer was higher in age group older than 60. The magnitude of cervical cancer and precancerous cases were steadily increasing throughout study periods whereas non cancerous cases were fluctuating.ConclusionsCervical cases were associated with wide range of disorders. Cervical cancer was the predominant cervical disease in symptomatic southern Ethiopian women. The high proportion of cervical cancer was observed in post-menopausal age when compared with other cervical cases. Effective uses of low-tech and inexpensive screening tools that already exist and giving awareness about the disease in combination with vaccine could reduce this high magnitude of cervical cancer in study area.

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Characteristics of cervical disease among symptomatic women with histopathological sample at Hawassa University referral hospital, Southern Ethiopia

Ameya

Yerakly

2017

BMC Women's Health

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“…The cervix is vulnerable to many pathological changes such as non-neoplastic and neoplastic lesions. (1,2). The nonneoplastic cervical lesions are distributed across all age groups, more commonly in sexually active women.…”

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Histopathological study of cervical lesions: a hospital based study in teaching hospital Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

Thirukumar¹,

Ahilan

2020

Jaffna Med. J.

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The uterine cervix is prone for infections and malignancies. The cervical cancer is fourth most common cancer in the world and second common female cancer in Sri Lanka. This hospital based retrospective study was done on 586 cervical specimens. This study was aimed for the histomorphology patterns of cervical lesions. Results; There were 10.2% malignant cases and 68.90% were non-neoplastic cervical specimens. Majority of the non-neoplastic cervical lesions were inflammation and polyp, constitute 37.2% and 17.7% of the total study samples. Majority of patients with cervical carcinoma (36.5%) presented with blood-stained, whitish per vaginal discharge and it is followed by (32.7%) abnormal uterine bleeding. The peak age incidence of cervical cancer was 50-59 years. Squamous cell carcinoma was by far the most common histological type accounting for 84.6%, followed by adenocarcinoma 11.5%. Squamous cell cervical carcinoma classified according to Broder's grading system into well, moderately and poorly differentiated at the time of initial diagnosis and constituting cases as 20%, 71.1% and 8.9% respectively. The chronic nonspecific cervicitis was the most common inflammatory lesion constituting 86.2% of nonneoplastic cases.The main presenting complaints of blood-stained vaginal discharge or abnormal uterine bleeding, especially in the age group of 50-59 years, should be investigated to exclude malignancy. Public health education should be intensified to encourage early health seeking behavior in order to diagnose cervical malignancy at an early age especially when they have clinical symptoms of blood-stained vaginal discharge or abnormal uterine bleeding.

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“…Studies have shown that chronic granulomatous cervicitis is mostly caused by tuberculosis [2]. Paavonen J et al [8] has stated that the etiology of chronic non-specific cervicitis is variable and it is of importance because it may lead to endometritis, salphingitis and "pelvic inflammatory disease" through ascending intraluminal spread, chorioamnionitis and it may also play a role, in the initiation or promotion of cervical neoplasia.…”

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“…Cervix is vulnerable to many pathological changes ranging from inflammation to malignancy. Uterine cervix is gateway to several non-neoplastic and neoplastic gynecological lesions [2].…”

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Histopathological spectrum of cervical biopsies – a 5 year retrospective study

Kumari

Umarani

Bharathi

2017

Trop J Pathol Microbiol

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Introduction: cervix is a gateway to numerous non neoplastic and neoplastic gynecological lesions. Cervical cancer is the leading cancer in Indian women and second most common cancer in women worldwide next to breast cancer. Objectives: 1) To study the histopathological features of cervical lesions. 2) To study the age distribution and relative frequency of various cervical lesions. Materials and Methods: This is 5 years retrospective study of all cervical biopsies received from 2011-2015 in the department of pathology. Result: In a total of 739 cases studied 365(49.39%) cases were non neoplastic, 113(15.29%) were pre invasive and 261(35.31%) cases were malignant. Cervicitis was the most common non neoplastic lesion and squamous cell carcinoma was the most common cancer. Conclusion: Adequate cervical screening procedure with follow up cervical biopsies helps in early diagnosis and management of premalignant and malignant lesions.

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Morphological spectrum of non-neoplastic lesions of the uterine cervix in Warri, South-South, Nigeria

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Characteristics of cervical disease among symptomatic women with histopathological sample at Hawassa University referral hospital, Southern Ethiopia

Characteristics of cervical disease among symptomatic women with histopathological sample at Hawassa University referral hospital, Southern Ethiopia

Histopathological study of cervical lesions: a hospital based study in teaching hospital Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

Histopathological spectrum of cervical biopsies – a 5 year retrospective study

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