Abstract:
This descriptive study conducted in turkey’s teaching hospital in
Khartoum state during the period from July 2009 to December 2009 in order
to assess the cervical cytological pattern among Sudanese women in
Khartoum state.
This study assessed the cytological patterns in cervical smears among
100 women attended to gynecology and obstetrics clinic in Turkey’s hospital.
All smears were collected and stained using Papanicloau’s stain.
Analysis of the cytological smear identified 71 (71%) were normal, while 4
(4%) smears were unsatisfactory , the remaining smears showed abnormal
microbial infection , including gardnerella vaginalis 9 (9%) , 14 cases had
Candida albicans (14%) , 2 cases (2%) had Trichomonas vaginalis , there is
associated acute inflammation with infiltration of polymorph cells and
reactive cytological changes such as nuclear enlargement , cytoplasmic
.granules and perinuclear halos in the squamous cells
Factors such as oral contraceptive use, pregnancy and husband smoking
considered in assessing cervical cytology, the study found that there was
insignificant relation between cytological changes and pregnancy , oral
contraceptive pills and husband smoking ( p-value > 0.05 ) .
The main conclusion derived from this study was that cervical screening
program is essential to estimate the actual magnitude of cervical carcinoma
and its precursor lesion.
