Papanicolaou smear
Use of Ligase Chain Reaction with Urine versus Cervical Culture for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in an Asymptomatic Military Population of Pregnant and Nonpregnant Females Attending Papanicolaou Smear Clinics
... Ligase chain reaction (LCR) (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Ill.) with first-catch urine specimens was used to detect Chlamydia trachomatis infections in 465 asymptomatic military women attending clinics for routine ...
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Parallel Screening with Papanicolaou Smear and Visual Inspection Tests Significantly Reduced False Negative Screening Results in Southern Brazil
... by Papanicolaou smear test (Pap test) and colposcopic examination (when necessary) of the cervix among women aged 25-64 years to prevent this cancer ...
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A Study of 10 296 Pediatric and Adolescent Papanicolaou Smear Diagnoses in Northern New England
... Pap smear should be offered as part of pre- ventive health maintenance to patients between 18 and 21 years of ...Pap smear exami- nation in the sexually active adolescent continues to elicit debate as the ...
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Segmentation of Nucleus and Cytoplasm from Unit Papanicolaou Smear Images using Deep Semantic Networks
... In semantic segmentation the model can be trained to segment new images. Once the model is trained it can segment new images thus reducing the time complexity. Also it can learn continuously thereby increasing its ...
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Comparative study of papanicolaou smear and colposcopy in the evaluation of cervical lesions
... diagnosed in 4%. Punctate pattern of vessels was seen in 5% of women. Normal findings was present in 62%, Erosion cervix in 6%, inflammatory changes were seen in 6% and polyps were diagnosed in 7.5%, lecoplakia was found ...
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Intention to Return for Papanicolaou Smears in Adolescent Girls and Young Women
... Pap smear?” “If you had a Pap smear which was abnormal but left untreated, how likely is it that it would become cancer?” and, “How likely is it that you will get cancer of the cervix sometime in your ...
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A methodological framework to distinguish spectrum effects from spectrum biases and to assess diagnostic and screening test accuracy for patient populations: Application to the Papanicolaou cervical cancer smear test
... to Papanicolaou smear testing for the detection of cervical ...on Papanicolaou smear test results can be explained by the influence of the virus on cellular ...
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Perinuclear halo indicate Trichomonas vaginalis in Pap smear
... Retrospective study was carried out in Al-Taif hospitals, permission to conduct the study was granted by the Ethics Committee of Al-Taif University. Preparation of slides for microscopic examination using conventional ...
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Comparative Evaluation of Profiles of Antibodies to Mycobacterial Capsular Polysaccharides in Tuberculosis Patients and Controls Stratified by HIV Status
... in smear-positive than in smear-negative TB patients was ...in smear-positive than in smear-negative TB patients from regions of endemicity (reviewed in reference 44), our group found no ...
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A comparative study on the efficacy of honey and ethanol as cytological fixatives
... Methods: The study was done on buccal smears from students of Department of MLT, Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India for a period of six months after ethical approval. Two buccal smears were ...
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THE SMEAR LAYER REVISITED
... agents: Smear layer components include very small particles with a large surface : mass ratio, which makes them soluble in ...the smear layer effectively when compared to liquid ...still smear layer ...
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Pamanes_Claudia_Masters_Paper_FINAL.pdf
... Pap smear, these studies found a constant low rate of high-grade cervical cancer detection due to poor quality in the Pap smear collection process and the technical cytological diagnosis (Flores, et ...
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Cost effectiveness analysis of PCR for the rapid diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis
... AFB smear alone cannot distinguish TB from mycobacteria other than TB ...AFB smear plus culture and AFB smear plus PCR dot-blot for diagno- sis of PTB ...
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Cervical Intra-epithelial Neoplasia (CIN) among Young Women in Jos Metropolis, Nigeria
... Abstract Background: cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is a premalignant lesion of the cervix that progresses into cervical cancer if untreated. An early diagnosis which determines the treatment of CIN is a ...
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Trends and Treatment Outcomes of Tuberculosis in Debre Berhan Referral Hospital, Debre Drehan, Ethiopia
... TB, smear positive (SPPTB): SPPTB case is based on the presence of at least one acid fast bacillus (AFB+) in at least one sputum sample in countries with a well-functioning EQA ...sputum smear examinations ...
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Modified Ultra Fast Pap Stain in Cytology in Comparision with Regular Pap Stain and MGG
... Kenji Bando and Reiji Haba et al., done a study on “Utility of Immediate cytologic Diagnosis of Lung masses using ultrafast papanicolaou stain” in 2011. In this study out of 503 cases investigated, the results of ...
Papanicolaou smears and cervical inflammatory cytokine responses
... A randomised controlled trial was conducted in which women between the ages of 18 and 29 years were recruited from the University of Cape Town Student Health Clinic, Cape Town, South Africa. Women were eli- gible to ...
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Knowledge, practice, and barriers toward cervical cancer screening in Elmina, Southern Ghana
... Pap smear test in the study, only three ...Pap smear test reported that they were referred by their health care ...Pap smear test included fear of cervical cancer and messages from radio ...
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Papanicolaou smears
... This was a prospective, single-blinded randomized case-control study. Using an odd-even numbering sys- tem, female patients presenting for a routine Pap smear were randomly assigned to the Swab Group or the No ...
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MODIFIED RAPID PAPANICOLAOU STAIN AS A SUITABLE ALTERNATIVE TO STANDARD PAPANICOLAOU STAIN
... Figure.1 compares the staining quality of the modified & conventional Papanicolaou stain. Sixty-two smears out of 76 cases showed good transparency of cytoplasm. The rest were suboptimal due to thick smears. ...
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