Cytokines of Cervical Mucosa and Human Papilloma Virus Infection of the Cervix: A Descriptive Study.

Objective: The production of cytokines by various cervical cells can be triggered by antigenic stimuli, including human papilloma virus (HPV) infection. The aim of the present study was to evaluate differences in cytokine levels between various intraepithelial cervical lesions.

Study Design: A total of 97 women participated in this descriptive study.

Ligation of internal iliac artery for severe obstetric and pelvic haemorrhage: 10 year experience with 11 cases in a university hospital.

Bilateral iliac artery ligation is an effective second-line procedure to control massive obstetric and gynaecological haemorrhage, it is life-saving in certain cases and has the advantage that it preserves fertility, which is particularly important in young women of low parity. Bilateral ligation of internal iliac arteries is a life-saving procedure in cases of massive obstetric haemorrhage. It has the advantage of preserving fertility compared with the commonly performed emergency obstetric hysterectomy.

Effect of depleted uranium weapons used in the Balkan war on the incidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and invasive cancer of the cervix in Greece.

Objective: To compare the incidence rates of CIN and invasive cancer of the cervix in two district areas near the borders with the former Yugoslavia and an urban area away from these borders three years before and three years after the bombings in this country.

Material: Two peripheral hospitals (in Kilkis and Serres) which are near the border with the former Yugoslavia and one University hospital (Hippocratio hospital of Thessaloniki) in a rural area away from the borders, where routine Papanicolaou smear tests for screening of CIN and invasive cancer of the cervix are performed in the general female population.

Methods: Hospital records were searched for abnormal smear test results.