Perinuclear halo indicate Trichomonas vaginalis in Pap smear

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Submitted: December 6, 2018
Published: Jan 11, 2019
DOI: 10.29328/journal.abb.1001013
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Papanicolaou smears, Trichomonas vaginalis, Microscopy

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Howaida Mahmoud Hagag
Laboratory Medicine Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia
Yosra Hussein Alam-Eldin
Medical Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Mahmoud Khalifa Mahmoud
Consaltant of Dermatology and Venereology King Faisal specialized Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia
Khadiga Ahmed Ismail
Laboratory Medicine Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia
Amany Mamdouh Abdulaziz
Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt
Ahmed Mahmoud Khalifa
Forensic and Toxicology Department Faculty of Medicine, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Osama Mahmoud Khalifa
Faculty of Medicine, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

Trichomonas vaginalis could be seen in Pap smears where it is reported, but because main concerned is placed on malignant cells in Pap smears, not much effort is done to search for this parasite in smears. In this study, 100 cervical and vaginal specimens were examined microscopically by the conventional Papanicolaou method and liquid base cytology (LBC) for the presence of Trichomonas vaginalis (T.vaginalis). 16% were infected with T.vaginalis while 10% of diagnosis based on both perinuclear halo and T. vaginalis presence although the association between perinuclear halo and T, vaginalis is statistically insignificant it is recommended to increase the number of the cases to prove or disprove the association.

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Hagag, H. M., Alam-Eldin, Y. H., Mahmoud, M. K., Ismail, K. A., Abdulaziz, A. M., Khalifa, A. M., & Khalifa, O. M. (2019). Perinuclear halo indicate Trichomonas vaginalis in Pap smear. Archives of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, 3(1), 001–005. https://doi.org/10.29328/journal.abb.1001013
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