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Budget impact analysis of cervical cancer screening in Portugal: comparison of ...
Pista, A; Costa, C; Saldanha, C; Moutinho, JA; Moutinho, JM; Arrobas, F; Catalão, C; Kempers, JBACKGROUND: Primary Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) testing is the currently recommended cervical cancer (CxCa) screening strategy by the Portuguese Society of Gynecology (SPG) clinical consensus. However, primary HPV testing has not yet been adopted by the Portuguese organized screening programs. This modelling study compares clinical benefits and costs of replacing the current practice, namely cytology with ASCUS...
Human Papillomavirus Type Distribution in Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia Gr...
Pista, A; Oliveira, CF; Lopes, C; Cunha, MJ; CLEOPATRE Portugal Study GroupOBJECTIVE: Cervical cancer is the third most frequent cancer in women, worldwide and etiologically associated with infection by human papillomavirus (HPV). Following the results of the first epidemiologic population-based CLEOPATRE study in Portugal, it was important to understand the HPV type-specific distribution in women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grades 2 and 3 and invasive cervical cance...
Risk factors for human papillomavirus infection among women in Portugal: the CL...
Pista, A; de Oliveira, CF; Cunha, MJ; Paixao, MT; Real, OOBJECTIVE: To investigate demographic, socioeconomic, lifestyle, and medical factors that might predispose women to cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. METHOD: A cross-sectional population-based study was performed. Women aged 18-64 years who attended selected obstetrics and gynecology or sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in mainland Portugal between February 2008 and March 2009 were recruit...
Risk factors for human papilomavirus infection among women in Portugal: the CLE...
Pista, A; Oliveira, CF; Cunha, MJ; Paixão, MT; Real, O; CLEOPATRE Portugal Study GroupOBJECTIVE: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for a range of diseases, including cervical cancer. The primary objectives of the CLEOPATRE Portugal study were to estimate the overall and age-stratified prevalence of cervical HPV infection and to assess HPV prevalence and type-specific distribution by cytological results among women aged 18 to 64 years, who reside in mainland Portugal. MATERIALS AND METHOD...
HPV type-specific distribution in a group of women attending at Hospital Fernan...
Santos, S; Pista, A; Pedro, A; Álvares, C; Ribeiro, C; Costa, C; Inácio, N; Pereira, S; Verdasca, NIntroduction: Genital HPV infection is very frequent. Nevertheless, type-specific distribution can vary greatly in different populations. Aim: To assess the HPV frequency and type-specific distribution in a highly ethnically diverse region and its association with gynecological cytology. Material and Methods: From March to July 2009, 419 LBC samples (ThinPrep) were collected from women 16-79 years old, attendin...
Tipos de HPV num grupo de mulheres da área de influência do Hospital Fernando F...
Santos, S; Pista, A; Pedro, A; Álvares, C; Ribeiro, C; Costa, C; Inácio, N; Pereira, S; Verdasca, N
Epidemiological study on the prevalence of HPV infection of women in Portugal: ...
Oliveira, CF; Pista, A; Cunha, MJ; Paixão, MT; Real, O; Cleopatre Portugal Study Group
Cervix uteri lesions and human papiloma virus infection (HPV): detection and ch...
Serra, H; Pista, A; Figueiredo, P; Urbano, A; Avilez, F; De Oliveira, C FThe prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes was estimated by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), in archival paraffin was embedded tissues. The case group consisted of 84 women aged 21-67 years (mean, 40 years) who were referred to the Department of Gynaecology (Oncology Centre, Coimbra) with citopathologically abnormal smears. This group was selected from a population of women who had undergone a s...
Lesões do colo uterino e infecção pelo vírus do papiloma humano (HPV) detecção ...
Serra, H; Pista, A; Figueiredo, P; Urbano, A; Avilez, F; Oliveira, CFThe prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes was estimated by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), in archival paraffin was embedded tissues. The case group consisted of 84 women aged 21-67 years (mean, 40 years) who were referred to the Department of Gynaecology (Oncology Centre, Coimbra) with citopathologically abnormal smears. This group was selected from a population of women who had undergone a s...
Typing of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the male and female genitalia.
Santo, C; Pista, A; Bartolo, E; Almeida, M; Ayres, L; Ferreira, P; Rodrigo, GDiagnosis and typing of HPV was started in November 1990 at the Virology department of the National Health Institute, Lisbon. Eighty one samples from 70 patients were studied, 57 from women observed at the cervico-vulvar out patient unit of the Gynecology department of Sta Maria Hospital, Lisbon, and 13 from male contacts of some of these women. Forty nine women (86%) had colposcopic, histological or cytologica...