Causes of non-useful Papanicolaou smear in two health areas. Cienfuegos, 2005.
<strong>Background:</strong> Cervicouterine cancer represents 10 % of all types of cancer, and it is one of the three main death causes in women. <strong><br />Objectives:</strong> to determine the factors that may influence in the diagnosis of non-useful Papanicolaou s...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos
2008-08-01
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| Series: | Medisur |
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| Online Access: | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/455 |
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| Summary: | <strong>Background:</strong> Cervicouterine cancer represents 10 % of all types of cancer, and it is one of the three main death causes in women. <strong><br />Objectives:</strong> to determine the factors that may influence in the diagnosis of non-useful Papanicolaou smear in health areas II and III of Cienfuegos municipality, Cuba. <br /><strong>Method:</strong> An ambispective analytic study was carried out in the second semester of the year 2005, in Cienfuegos municipality, Cuba. 122 non-useful Papanicolaou smear from health areas II and III were collected and those carrier women of the above mentioned samples were dated to repeat the test. The variables were; requisites and conditions to perform the test, visualization of the cervix and presence of vaginal sepsis. <strong><br />Results:</strong> An inadequated sample taking was observed in 93 patients (76,2 %), as well as the bad conditions of the place where the samples were taken. There was also instrumentation deficiency. The interview in more than 50 % of women was not the adequate one. <strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> Yet, existing an acceptable index of non useful Papanicolaou smear in Cienfuegos province, the program to detect cervicouterine cancer confront difficulties in its application and results. <br /> |
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| ISSN: | 1727-897X |