Gynecology Oncology
Akram Ghahghaei-Nezamabadi; Afsaneh Tehranian; Setareh Akhavan; Elahe Rezayof; Nooshan Tajik
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 11 May 2024
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Background & Objective: Immunosuppression, HPV persistence, and smoking are the main related risk factors of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) recurrence. However, age as a basic factor may be a main factor related to CIN recurrence. Therefore, our study aimed to detect the potential role ...
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Background & Objective: Immunosuppression, HPV persistence, and smoking are the main related risk factors of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) recurrence. However, age as a basic factor may be a main factor related to CIN recurrence. Therefore, our study aimed to detect the potential role of women's age in CIN recurrence.Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 329 patients who underwent conization in the gynecology-oncology clinics of Arash and Imam Khomeini hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences between February 2016 and February 2021.Results: Totally, 329 cases were enrolled in the study. Most women were in their thirties. CIN recurrence was about 10.0% (32 cases). The CIN recurrence rate was 8.9% in women younger than 30, 10.2% in 30-40, 11.3% in 40-50, and 5.6% in 50-60 decades. There was no significant (p-value=0.802) difference in recurrence rate among age groups. There was a significant (p-value=0.023) difference in the frequency of endocervical involvement regarding age category, women aged 40 to 50 had the most frequent marginal involvement with 26.8%, while there was no significant (p-value=0.802) difference in frequency of marginal involvement regards age category.Conclusion: CIN cases with age higher than 40 years need to have more caution and tight follow-up visit after conization.
Gynecology Oncology
Afsaneh Tehranian; Akram Ghahghaei-Nezamabadi; Maryam Motiei Langeroudi; Reyhaneh Aghajani
Volume 8, Issue 1 , January and February 2023, , Pages 53-56
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Background & Objective: We compared two different methods of visual inspection of the cervix, including Visual inspection of the cervix with acetic acid (VIA) and Visual inspection of the cervix with Lugol's iodine (VILI) in terms of sensitivity and specificity in diagnosis of pre-malignant cervical ...
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Background & Objective: We compared two different methods of visual inspection of the cervix, including Visual inspection of the cervix with acetic acid (VIA) and Visual inspection of the cervix with Lugol's iodine (VILI) in terms of sensitivity and specificity in diagnosis of pre-malignant cervical lesions in comparison to colposcopy guided biopsy.Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total number of 200 women who were referred to the colposcopy clinic of Arash women’s hospital (Tehran, Iran) for cervical cancer screening, underwent VIA, VILI, and colposcopy guided biopsy during 2018-2019.Results: The calculated sensitivity and specificity of VIA and VILI in this population were (100% and 69.5%) and (100% and 60%), respectively, whereas the sensitivity and specificity of both VIA and VILI tests in combination were 100% and 77.2%. The positive and negative predictive values were 32.7% and 100%, respectively, when combined form of VIA and VILI was applied in this population.Conclusion: VIA and VILI alone or in combination could be used as screening tests to evaluate the presence of cervical cancer and in case of positive results, supplementary tests such as colposcopy guided biopsy could be performed for definite diagnosis.
Setare Akhavan; Afsaneh Tehranian; Akram Ghahghaei Nezam Abadi
Volume 1, Issue 2 , September and October 2016
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Introduction: Embryonal (Botryoid) Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is an aggressive malignancy that arises from embryonal rhabdomyoblasts. It is commonly seen in the genital tract of female infants and young children. The primary site of these tumors is closely related to the age of the patient. Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma ...
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Introduction: Embryonal (Botryoid) Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is an aggressive malignancy that arises from embryonal rhabdomyoblasts. It is commonly seen in the genital tract of female infants and young children. The primary site of these tumors is closely related to the age of the patient. Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma has a marked tendency for local recurrence after excision. Due to young age of affected patients who desire fertility, the management of this rapidly growing malignancy is very critical and poses challenges.
Case Presentation: We report on two cases embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of uterine cervix, who were referred to Imam Khomeini hospital during year 2014. Both of them were young virgin females. The presenting symptom for both was vaginal bleeding and protrusion of polypoid mass from the hymen. After neoadjuvant chemotherapy, radical hysterectomy was offered to them. One of them refused, thus local excision was done. Both patients received adjuvant chemotherapy yet in the patient with local excision, the tumor recurred with multiple metastases.
Conclusions: There are several methods of surgical approach and variation in adjuvant therapy in the management of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma. If we choose a conservative approach for surgery of early stage, surgical margin should be negative and in other cases doing radical surgery is the best.
