Correlation of conventional and liquid-based cytology and their meaning in management of precancerous cervical lesions.

Aim: Introduction of efficiency of liquid-based citoscreen cytology

Method: Conventional cytology with Papanicolaou method and comparison with novel cytology liquid-based method in women with histological findings associated to Human Papilloma Virus praecancerous lesions for "gold standard" method.

Results: 100 women with praecancerous cervical lesions were included in the study. In all of the women, biopsy and endocervical curettage were made, and histological results were taken as a "gold standard".

Operative treatment of cervical premalignant lesions and the presence of high-risk human papilloma virus as etiologic agent.

The conization as an excisional method is used as an operative treatment of high-risk premalignant cervical lesions. Early detection and removal may stop the developing process that leads to invasive carcinoma. The study presents a group of 100 women, operated with "cold knife" conization during the year 2002 at the 1st Operative Oncologic Department of the Gynecology and Obstetrician Clinic - Medical Faculty, Skopje.

Regional landscape-ecological planning and desertification control in arid regions of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Scale-dependent present-day landscape mapping and assessment were used to study the relationship among physical environment, land use, and degree of landscape modification in the Aral Sea region and the Karakum Desert, areas prone to desertification in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Applying geographic information system (GIS) techniques at global (1:15,000,000), regional (1:1,000,000), and local (1:300,000) scales, researchers found that large-scale landscape assessment and mapping allow them to recognize landscape changes under desertification processes and assess the type and intensity of these processes. Remote sensing has been widely used to evaluate data reliability, to fill information gaps, and to reveal the dynamics of land use types resulting from landscape changes.