[Osteoporosis in menopausal women between 40 and 65 years old : an algorithm for the gynaecologist].

Osteoporosis is a bone disease that promotes the development of fragility fractures. An algorithm is proposed for the gynaecologists'use to diagnose and treat osteoporosis in young menopausal women. The fracture risk can be calculated with the FRAX tool.

Keeping collecting device in liquid medium is mandatory to ensure optimized liquid-based cervical cytologic sampling.

Objective: To determine the impact of not keeping the collecting device in liquid-based cytology. Loss of material was computed from a pair of subsamples from the same cervical scrape. One subsample was obtained by rinsing the collecting device in one vial and the other by discarding it in another vial.