ABSTRACT
Cancer of the cervix, is second most frequent cancer among the Indian women. To bring down the burden of cancer, in addition to opportunistic cervical cytology along with Mass screening programs, it is imperative to involve nursing staff & paramedical personnel in educating the masses. This cross sectional study describes findings of a pilot screening program, undertaken among nursing staff of a tertiary care hospital. It was found that even among the educated nursing staff there is low level of awareness for usage of pap testing. Cervical cytology revealed wide variety of inflammatory lesions. With the low doctor to population, involvement of the nursing personnel for Periodical cytological screening for prevention of cervical cancer would go a long way in early detection of various cervical abnormalities and increasing awareness among them.
ABSTRACT
Tumoral calcinosis (TC) is a rare benign clinical and histological entity. It presents as tumour-like periarticular deposits of calcium in hip, shoulder and elbow regions. Idiopathic tumoral calcinosis (TC) is different from the secondary calcium deposition associated with terminal renal diseases, hypervitaminosis D and milk alkali syndrome with disturbed calcium metabolism. There are no demonstrable abnormalities of calcium metabolism in Idiopathic TC. TC predominantly affects children and young adults and is rare in old age. When TC occurs in old patients, possibility of other differential diagnoses need to be considered and ruled out with the help of morphological examination of the tumorous swelling. Two cases of TC that occurred in 65 and 75 year old females respectively were initially diagnosed on the basis of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) findings of the swellings and later confirmed by histopathological examination of the excised tissue. Diagnostic biopsies were avoided in these patients. Cytological study can prove to be a rapid and reliable method of preoperative morphological diagnosis of tumoral calcinosis.