Gynécologie, obstétrique & fertilité
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Gynecol Obstet Fertil · Mar 2002
[Cytological history of 148 women presenting with invasive cervical cancer].
The aim of this study was to analyse the cytological history of women presenting with invasive cervical cancer. ⋯ In this study, the failures of cervical cancer screening were essentially attributed to the lack or the insufficiency of screening and the existence of false negatives of the cytology.
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Gynecol Obstet Fertil · Dec 2001
Comparative Study[Transvaginal ultrasonography of the uterine cervix before induction of labor].
To compare the Bishop score and transvaginal ultrasonographic measurement of cervical length for predicting the mode of delivery following medically indicated induction of labor in term patients. ⋯ Cervical length measured with transvaginal ultrasonography is a better predictor than the Bishop score for predicting the risk of cesarean section following medically indicated induction of labor.
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Angiogenesis is a factor of spread and metastatization. This fact has been established for many malignancies, but the data concerning cervical cancer are rather conflicting. In a study including 42 patients affected by cervical cancer stages IB to IVA, the authors assess the mean capillary density and the correlations between this parameter and the other anatomoclinical parameters: the VEGF expression, tumoral oxygenation and the data obtained from dynamic MRI. ⋯ VGEF surely plays a role in angiogenesis linked with cervical cancer growth, but its regulation is not definitively clear at the moment. The impact of tumoral oxygenation (whose place as a prognostic marker is clearly established) on tumoral angiogenesis and vessels' permeability as well as its control is currently not clearly established. Further studies on larger populations are necessary.