The objective of this study is to evaluate whether anterior cervical fusion performed using BAK-C cage is a safe and effective method in the treatment of degenerative cervical disorders. Between 1998 and 2001, a consecutive series of 103 patients underwent anterior cervical fusion with titanium cage for ...

The cervical cap has been widely used as a barrier method of birth control in England and Europe for most of this century but has not been generally available in the United States. The nurse practitioners and nurse midwives at the Childbearing Childrearing Center of the University of Minnesota began offering the cervical cap as a birth control option in ...

Prognosis of patients with recurrent esophageal cancer is usually unsatisfactory. We have successfully treated five patients with cervical node recurrence after esophagectomy with multimodal treatment including salvage lymphadenectomy. In order to clarify the efficacy of salvage surgery for cervical node recurrence, we have reviewed the clinical course and ...

Prophylactic vaccination with human papillomavirus (HPV) virus-like particle (VLP) vaccines against HPV 16 and HPV 18, which are the cause of 70% or more of cervical cancers in women, has transformed our prospects for reducing the incidence of this disease on a global scale. HPV VLP vaccines are immunogenic, well tolerated and show remarkable efficacy, ...

We reviewed patients with cervical disc prosthesis replacement for single-level cervical disc disease to evaluate its clinical effect and maintenance of cervical spine motion. Fifteen patients underwent Bryan artificial cervical disc replacement and were followed-up for at least 24�months. No ...

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion is a commonly performed procedure for prolapse of cervical intervertebral disc. It involves retraction of soft tissue of neck for adequate exposure of anterior spinal canal. Increased cuff pressure with retractor application may affect the postoperative vocal cord function. Cuff pressures of tracheal tube were ...

... Abstract : Cervical cancer is theoretically completely preventable by effective screening using cervical cytology methods (the Pap test). ...

This case report describes a case of heterotopic cervical ectopic pregnancy in a nulliparous woman that was successfully treated with single-dose local, intra-amniotic methotrexate injection in the gestational sac. Pregnancy was achieved spontaneously. The patient had previously undergone hysteroscopic myomectomy. By using local, single-dose treatment we ...

Cervical radiculopathy caused by a posterolateral disc herniation or spondylosis is a common pathology. Decompression of a stressed cervical nerve root is a routine neurosurgical procedure. To determine the safety and effectiveness of anterior cervical microforaminotomy (ACM), we prospectively studied patients ...

Cervical cancer is preventable and curable if detected early. Timely cervical cancer screening through Papanicolaou (Pap) tests has been recognized as the most effective way to identify the earliest signs of cervical cancer. Although the number of women n...

STUDY DESIGN: Clinical study of percutaneous endoscopic surgery for cervical intervertebral disc herniation (CHIVD). OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to evaluate the efficacy of anterior percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy (APECD), previously known as percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy, for CHIVD. In addition, the ways to avoid ...

One hundred and twenty-two percutaneous cervical cordotomies were performed in 100 patients. Of these, 95 suffered from pain associated with malignant disease. Complete pain relief was achieved in 64% of patients, partial relief in 23% and no relief in 13%. Mortality was 6% and exclusively related to postoperative respiratory dysfunction. The results and ...

For cervical cancer detection, the performance of multispectral texture (MST) features extracted from multispectral Pap smear images is evaluated. In this study we carried out pairwise comparisons between different image features, including MST versus average spectral texture features (AST, without spectral information), and MST versus multispectral intensity features (MSI, ...

Specific genotypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) are well correlated with cervical oncogenesis. The major transforming and immortalizing protein in high risk HPVs, namely HPV16, is E7 protein. E7 protein functions by deregulating the cell cycle and promoting S-phase reentry in differentiated keratinocytes. Currently, clinical diagnosis of cervical cancer ...

Cervical cancer is not considered a hormone-responsive tumor in spite of the presence of estrogen receptors (ER) and progesterone receptors (PgR) in some of them. Endocrine treatments have not achieved clinical responses, however, tamoxifen has been reported to induce PgR and to inhibit cell growth of many cervical carcinoma cell ...

Purpose: To assess the technical success rate, complications, and effect on intraoperative blood loss of preoperative transarterial embolization of cervical spine tumors. Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on 38 patients with tumors of the cervical spine; 69 vertebrae were affected. Polyvinyl alcohol particles, coils, ...

BackgroundScreening tests for cervical cancer are effective in reducing the disease burden. In Thailand, a Pap smear program has been implemented throughout the country for 40 years. In 2008 the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) unexpectedly decided to scale up the coverage of free cervical cancer screening services, to meet an ...

Successful cervical cancer prevention depends on reaching, screening and treating women with pre-invasive disease. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of two media interventions-a photo-comic and a radio-drama-in increasing cervical screening uptake. A randomized controlled trial compared a photo-comic on ...

Aim:? To evaluate the value of sonographic measurement of cervical length as a predictor of abortion or delivery within 24?h by misoprostol in second trimester termination of pregnancy (TOP). Material and Methods:? One hundred and sixty-three women underwent TOP between 14 and 26?weeks of pregnancy due to various indications. The primary outcome was abortion within 24?h. ...

ObjectiveTo compare the impact of 1000 ?g of self-administered vaginal misoprostol versus self-administered vaginal placebo on preoperative cervical ripening after 2 weeks of pretreatment with estradiol vaginal tablets in postmenopausal women prior to day-care operative hysteroscopy.DesignRandomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled sequential trial.SettingNorwegian university ...

... Title : Cervical Resistance Training: Effects on Isometric and Dynamic Strength. Descriptive Note : Research paper Jul 2003-Feb 2008. ...

Objectives: Recent introduction of a quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for girls in New Zealand is expected to decrease the incidence of HPV infection as well as resultant cytological abnormalities and cervical cancer. This may affect the cost-effectiveness of the national cervical screening program by reducing the ...

Does Multispectral Texture Features Really Improve Cervical Cancer Detection? Tong Zhao, Jiayong For cervical cancer detection, the performance of multispectral texture (MST) features extracted from information can achieve better classification results (ROC curves) for cervical cancer detection from

ObjectiveTo compare the impact of 1000 micrograms of self-administered vaginal misoprostol versus self-administered vaginal placebo at home on preoperative cervical ripening in both premenopausal and postmenopausal women before operative hysteroscopy.DesignTwo separate but identical parallel, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled sequential trials, one in premenopausal ...

Because increased effects have been achieved when murine tumors are irradiated after a period of hypoxia and because of anecdotal clinical experiences of an improved result after irradiation of previously anemic patients in hyperbaric oxygen, the relationship between irradiation and increased survival was investigated in seventy-two patients with advanced ...

The present study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of concurrent radiation therapy and irinotecan in patients with stage IIIB cervical cancer. Fifteen patients with no prior radiation therapy and chemotherapy were enrolled in the study. These patients received 50 Gy of external radiation to whole the pelvis, 50 Gy with an additional dose of 6-10 Gy to the parametrium ...

Despite the long term availability of an effective screening tool and initial declines, invasive cervical cancer incidence has leveled off at a level far from zero.

... the effective cervical cytology triage point using ... Internet-based telecytology system with hierarchical ... Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA ...

Cervical Cryotherapy What is cryotherapy? Cryotherapy or a freezing treatment is a safe and effective way to ... similar to menstrual cramps during the treatment. The freezing treatment takes only 10 to 15 minutes and ...

Cervical DDD at Two Adjacent Cervical Levels (C3-C7) Requiring Surgical Treatment and Involving Intractable Radiculopathy, Myelopathy, or Both.

... new methods for the detection and treatment of cervical cancer and especially its precursors. However, these techniques are ... intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)� is a precursor of invasive cervical cancer....

Cervical cancer is theoretically completely preventable by effective screening using cervical cytology methods (the Pap test). The process of preparing and interpreting Pap tests remains one of the last high-volume manual processes in the clinical laborat...

In a prospective study the cervical bacterial flora of pregnant women with insufficiency of the cervix is compared with the flora of asymptomatic pregnant women. It could be demonstrated, that in case of insufficiency of the cervix a different bacterial flora is found: in addition to the incidence of pathological bacterial groups, a shift of the physiological flora with ...

The site where the semen is deposited appears to be one of the most important factors affecting pregnancy of inseminated goats. In Murciano-Granadina (MG) goats, post-cervical insemination is achieved in a limited number of females. An effective way to increase fertility rate could be by increasing post-cervical ...