Efficacy of visual inspection of the cervix using acetic acid in cervical cancer screening: A comparison with cervical cytology
| العنوان: | Efficacy of visual inspection of the cervix using acetic acid in cervical cancer screening: A comparison with cervical cytology |
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| المؤلفون: | Yusuf A Oshodi, Oluwarotimi I. Akinola, O Odusanya, Abidoye Gbadegesin, A.O. Fabamwo, Adetokunbo Tayo, A A Banjo |
| المصدر: | Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 27:703-705 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2007. |
| سنة النشر: | 2007 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, Cervix Uteri, Sensitivity and Specificity, Predictive Value of Tests, Cytology, Biopsy, medicine, Humans, Mass Screening, Cervix, Mass screening, Acetic Acid, Vaginal Smears, Gynecology, Cervical cancer, Colposcopy, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Biopsy, Needle, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Papanicolaou Test, medicine.disease, female genital diseases and pregnancy complications, medicine.anatomical_structure, Predictive value of tests, Female, Indicators and Reagents, Radiology, business |
| الوصف: | Screening programmes for the early detection of premalignant lesions of the cervix are expensive and technically difficult, especially in resource-challenged settings. There is a need for cheaper and equally effective alternative screening methods. This study compared the efficacy of visual inspection of the cervix using acetic acid (VIA) with the Pap smear method. A total of 186 subjects had a Pap smear followed by visual inspection of the cervix using 3 - 5% acetic acid with biopsies taken from suspicious acetowhite positive lesions. Cases of abnormal cytology were recalled for biopsies. A total of 150 subjects were negative for both tests; 30 (16.2%) were positive for VIA, while six were positive for both VIA and Pap smear. VIA detected one lesion missed by Pap smear on biopsy. The sensitivity of VIA was 100%, while that of Pap smear was 85.7%. The negative predictive value of VIA was 100%, while the positive predictive value was 20%. The sensitivity of VIA equals the reported rates for Pap smear. VIA is proposed as a credible alternative to Pap smear in resource-challenged settings. |
| تدمد: | 1364-6893 0144-3615 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01443610701614421 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::3b3ffbf890e8d4c4ee570d3b31b53fa6 https://doi.org/10.1080/01443610701614421 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....3b3ffbf890e8d4c4ee570d3b31b53fa6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 13646893 01443615 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/01443610701614421 |