Epidemiology of infection Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
Infection with Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is currently the sexually transmitted disease most common in the world.
The risk of one day HPV infection is 80% to 85% among sexually active people. The acute infection is common just after the onset of sexual activity and has a great prevalence among [...]
When consult for the first time
When we never had sexual relations
Synthesis of a discussion in November 2002 about Gynelist between Dr.Michel Briex (Libourne), Bernard Cristalli (Evry, France), Thierry Dumont (Hyeres), Christian Fossat (St Martin), Charles Nahmanovici (Nice), Stephane Oks (Montpellier) Luc Pacaud, Gérard Samama (Rueil), Joel Silvert (Valenciennes), Bob Tetuanui, Bernard Tiberghien (Grasse).
In the absence [...]
Treatment of recurrent urinary tract infections
If treatment minute of urinary tract infection is currently low therapy of choice, it does not prevent recidivism in a more or less long term bladder infections in some women.
Faced with repeated urinary tract infections, it is required to prescribe prophylactic antibiotics.
What product use, what dose and how fast?
Three families [...]
Do I need a mammogram?
There are differences of opinion in the medical community about the value of mammography among women under the age of 50, as shown in Table 1. Some people feel that even if only a few deaths are preventable, the time spent, anxiety, additional testing and well worth the discomfort.
Others feel that [...]
Women who have regular mammograms fewer mastectomies than those who do not?
No, the curiously it has been reported that women who have regular mammograms have any greater likelihood of having a mastectomy (removal of the breast) than those who do not. The reason for this cause is not clear. It may be that some women [...]
The mammography has a great ability to detect cancer in situ: Is it a good thing?
Nearly all breast cancers are born inside the channels leading breast milk. When cancer cells proliferate outward invading surrounding tissue, it’s called invasive cancer. The in situ cancer is not a cancer but a precancerous lesion developed within the channels. [...]
Women should they continue mammography screening after age 70?
There is some evidence that mammography can reduce mortality by breast cancer among women over the age of 70. In studies involving thousands of women, there were fewer cases of metastatic breast cancer in patients undergoing mammography screening than in those who did not. The metastatic cancer [...]
The mammograms manquent-elles fewer breast cancers among women with a family history of breast cancer?
The mammograms appear to be missing a similar number of breast cancer among women with a family history of breast cancer. While mammograms detect the majority of invasive breast cancer, they lack some and this proportion is higher among young women [...]
What likely to happen if 10000 women from 50 to 70 years old have a mammogram?
If 10000 women from 50 to 70 years old have a mammogram, 680 women will have an abnormal mammogram, and averaged 2 examinations will be made to each of them.
One hundred and eighty of these women will have a surgical [...]
What likely to happen if 10000 women under the age of 50 have a mammogram?
If 10000 women under the age of 50 have a mammogram, 640 women will have an abnormal mammogram, and averaged 2 examinations will be made to each of them.
One hundred and fifty of these women will have a surgical biopsy. Among [...]
