title: Cervicography in evaluation of early detection of the cervical lesions.
abstract: Analysis of evaluation of early cervical lesions detection has been made in 106 patients with the clinical signs of current genital organ's inflammation. The same analysis has been done comparing Papanicolaou cytodiagnostic analysis and cervicographic images of the cervix in the same group of patients. We have concluded that both methods (Papanicolaou cytodiagnostic analysis as well as cervicography) are equally useful in detection of preinvasive and invasive cervix lesions. Cervicography was three times more sensitive for the detection of inflammatory lesions in the area surrounding the cervix. Cytodiagnostic becomes equally useful after the treatment and repairment of the inflammation, whereby the conditions for the use of cytodiagnostic are fulfilled. At the same time we have verified that there is a need for cervicography only once in a lifetime of every woman, except for those at high risk of cervical cancer development. Those women can be evaluated according to the needs by additional analysis of atypical cervicogram or insufficiently good image of transformation zone, for which continuous cytodiagnostics surveillance is generally used.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Buković
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fures
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Speranda
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Silovski
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hirs
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mikacić
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Stancerić
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D008875:Middle Aged; D065006:Papanicolaou Test; D010781:Photography; D012307:Risk Factors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D014626:Vaginal Smears