Colposcopic Evaluation of unhealthy Cervix: A Prospective Study

Comparison of liquid based cytology vs conventional pap smear in cervical cancer screening in low resource setting

“…In the present study majority of the patients 78 (39.0%) were in the age group of 40-44 years followed by 51 (25.5%) 35-39 years, 47 (23.5%) 45-49 years and rest 24 (12.0%) >49 years of age. This was similar to the study by Kasem et al [17] in which almost two-thirds of the cases were within 26 to 45 years. Tofazzal et al [18] found highest incidence of years in age group closely followed by 30 to 40 years, where the age of occurrence of invasive cervical cancer was 40 to 45 years.…”

“…The automatic slide preparation is carried out by the Cell solution F50 processor to generate a thin-layer cell sample. Then both LBC smear and conventional Pap smear were subjected to papanicolaou staining following which both slides will be analyzed by the pathologist [17] . Bethesda Classification [15] was used for reporting and biopsy was carried out to make confirmatory diagnosis in case of intraepithelial lesion or malignancy.…”