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Prevaccination distribution of human papillomavirus types in women attending at cervical cancer screening in Belgium.
HPV infection with age, geographic area, and occurrence of cytologic lesions were assessed. RESULTS: The prevalence of cytologic abnormalities was atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance ...
Perinatal mortality and other severe adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: meta-analysis.
(<32/34 weeks), extreme preterm delivery (<28/30 weeks), and low birth weight (<2000 g, <1500 g, and <1000 g). Excisional and ablative treatment procedures were distinguished. RESULTS: One ...
Pooled analysis of the accuracy of five cervical cancer screening tests assessed in eleven studies in Africa and India.
in India and Africa. More than 58,000 women, aged 25-64 years, were tested with 2-5 screening tests and outcome verification was done on all women independent of the screen test results. The outcome ...
Organization of a quality-assurance project in all Belgian multidisciplinary diabetes centres treating insulin-treated diabetes patients: 5 years' experience.
by returning comprehensive feedback (benchmarks) and during information meetings. RESULTS: Nearly all diabetes centres (98-100%) participated. The pooled sample consisted of 9194 (32%) Type 1 and 19 ...
Liquid compared with conventional cervical cytology: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
INTEGRATION, AND RESULTS: The relative sensitivity, pooled from eight studies, with complete gold standard verification and from one randomized clinical trial, did not differ significantly from unity. Also, the ...
European guidelines for quality assurance in cervical cancer screening: recommendations for collecting samples for conventional and liquid-based cytology.
a satisfactory conventional Pap smear or a liquid-based cytology (LBC) sample. Practitioners taking samples for cytology should first explain to the woman the purpose, the procedure and how the result will be ...
Review of current knowledge on HPV vaccination: an appendix to the European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Cervical Cancer Screening.
bivalent vaccine containing VLP s of HPV16 and HPV18 will become available in 2007. Each year, HPV16 and HPV18 cause approximately 43,000 cases of cervical cancer in the European continent. Results from the ...
Chapter 9: Clinical applications of HPV testing: a summary of meta-analyses.
and pre-cancer. RESULTS: Consistent evidence is available indicating that HPV-triage with the Hybrid Capture-2 assay (HC2) is more accurate (significantly higher sensitivity, similar specificity) than repeat ...
Clinical utility of HPV-DNA detection: triage of minor cervical lesions, follow-up of women treated for high-grade CIN: an update of pooled evidence.
with ASCUS or LSIL. We also performed meta-analyses to examine the best predictor of recurrence of CIN after treatment for CIN2 or CIN3. RESULTS: We found that HPV testing using the Hybrid Capture II ...
Virologic versus cytologic triage of women with equivocal Pap smears: a meta-analysis of the accuracy to detect high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia.
Viral Female Humans middle aged ODDS RATIO Papanicolaou Test Papillomaviridae Papillomavirus Infections Practice Guidelines as Topic Predictive Value of Tests prevalence Reproducibility of Results ...