Cervical Cytological Screening Results of 8,495 Cases in Turkey - Common Inflammation but Infrequent Epithelial Cell Abnormalities?

• DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.13.5127
• Publication Date: 2014-09-17T07:32:40Z
• Authors: Ferah Tuncel Daloglu; Yeliz Arman Karakaya; Hilal Balta; Eren Altun; Aslihan Duman
• Keywords: Cervical screening

Cervical cancer is the ninth most common among females in Turkey. smear a routine screening test used for detection of cervical abnormalities and also it detects certain infections cervix.To analyze results our clinic order to determine frequent pathology women North Eastern Anatolia Region Turkey.In retrospective study design, 8,495 cytology cases diagnosed at Pathology Department Regional Education Research Hospital Erzurum over last one half years extending from August 2012 December 2013 were investigated.The diagnosis was found be inflammation, 65.5 % (5,566 out 8,495), least squamous epithelial 0.2% (13 8,495). There some variation three pathologists regarding but findings latter.Regular tests are important strategies early there conflicting data prevalence cell Turkey, reasons this should investigated.