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Introduction: Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) has been adopted for cervical cancer screening in Kenya and other Low-Middle Income Countries despite providing suboptimal results among HIV-infected women. It is mostly performed by nurses in health centers. Innovative ways of improving the performance of VIA in HIV-infected women are desired.
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January 2025
Centre of General Practice, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Objective: To report on complications of conisation and its effects on fertility and stenosis.
Design: Register based nationwide cohort study on routinely collected data using several linked databases.
Setting: Primary and secondary care in Denmark, 2006-18.
Sci Rep
January 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kütahya Health Sciences University, Kütahya, Turkey.
This study aimed to investigate the effect of cervical length on procedure time and VAS pain scores during office hysteroscopy. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 50 patients who underwent office hysteroscopy for various indications such as abnormal uterine bleeding and infertility. Exclusion criteria included active vaginal infection, previous cervical surgery, and chronic pelvic pain.
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March 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan.
Ovarian cancer has a poor prognosis, and screening methods have not been established. Biomarkers based on molecular genetic characteristics must be identified to develop diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for all cancer types, particularly ovarian cancer. The present study aimed to evaluate the usefulness of genetic analysis of cervical and endometrial liquid-based cytology (LBC) specimens for detecting somatic mutations in patients with ovarian cancer.
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December 2024
Department of Pathology, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor (NTRK)-rearranged uterine sarcoma is a rare type of uterine sarcoma. This paper presents a case of a 49-year-old female who was admitted to the hospital due to lower abdominal pain and subsequently diagnosed with tropomyosin 3 (TPM3)::NTRK1-rearranged uterine sarcoma. To our knowledge, TPM3::NTRK1-rearranged sarcomas almost always occur in the cervix, and this is a novel case of uterine corpus occurrence.
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