Bi-directional
cervicography is used in the radiological examination of oesophageal foreign bodies, especially because the great majority of foreign bodies are attached to the pharyngoesophageal junction.
Testing
cervicography and cervicoscopy as screening tests for cervical cancer.
Cervical cancer can be prevented with the HPV vaccine, cytological test, visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA), visual inspection with Lugol's iodine (VILI),
cervicography and speculoscopy (17).
Digital
Cervicography is a noninvasive visual examination method performed by taking a photograph of the cervix (called a cervigram) after the application of 5% acetic acid to the cervix epithelium.
Combining human papillomavirus testing or
cervicography with cytology to detect cervical neoplasia.
(2) diagnostic screening approach based on the tissue level (i.e., visual inspection after applying Lugol's iodine (VILI) or acetic acid (VIA),
cervicography, colposcopy, and hyperspectral diagnostic imaging (HSDI)).
In each of the initial 2 projects, just under 3 000 previously unscreened women aged 35-65 years were screened with 4 screening tests: (i) cytology; (ii) screening for high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV) (DNA testing); (iii) visual inspection with (5%) acetic acid (VIA) to visualise aceto-whitening, an indication of an underlying cervical cancer precursor; and (iv)
cervicography, in which the cervix was photographed after VIA using a specially adapted camera.
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Cervicography: creates enlarged photographs of the cervix to be used along with Pap tests.
Nurses evaluated 6,572 HIV-positive patients with visual inspection and digital
cervicography and 3,523 (54%) were screen positive.
(3) Of note, telecolposcopy performed better than
cervicography and almost as well as on-site colposcopy, with no significant difference in sensitivity or specificity, and similar likelihood ratios for detecting all degrees of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.
Should cervical cytologic testing be augmented by
cervicography or human papillomavirus deoxyribonucleic acid detection?