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PAP-Smear and Colposcopy


The Pap-test is a cytological examination proposed from Papanicolaou in 1943. It has the task to estimate normality of the cells of the uterine cervix or, on the contrary, to recognize the patients affected from lesions of uterine cervix not still of tumoral type, but with evolutionary potentiality in frankly neoplastic sense. Such lesions are called Dysplasia. A microscopical acknowledgment of this lesions (than is not valued clinical and macrocospically) concurs their treatment, with surgical operation sometimes very simple, and therefore conservative for the function of the uterus, preventing therefore their degeneration in neoplastic sense. True prevention of the cervical cancer uterus is come therefore to put into effect one.

In presence of marked anomalies from the Pap-test, the execution of the Colposcopy is indicated.
This examination, executed by an optical instrument (Colposcope) and of chemical reagents (acetic acid and an iodine solution called Lugol's Solution), is performed to examine the surface of the uterine cervix and the vaginal walls, with magnifications 10-20 X, to the search of eventual anomalous areas on which execute a biopsy (executed that is under colposcopic guide) in order to arrive to diagnosis.
PAP-TEST (cytology)
diagnostic suspicion
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COLPOSCOPY
localization of the lesion
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BIOPSY (histology)
confirmation of the diagnosis
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