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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4140</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.131905</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Cytological Patterns of Cervical Smear Seen at Federal Medical Centre Asaba, Delta State in Nigeria&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ese</surname><given-names>Anibor</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Martins</surname><given-names>Obaroefe</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jennifer</surname><given-names>Jaiyeoba-Ojigho Efe</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Anene</surname><given-names>Maidoh Maryjoy</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>11</day><month>10</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>9)</volume><issue/><fpage>76</fpage><lpage>79</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: The cervical smear test is the most commonly carried out cytology test for women and has been proven to help identify the emergence of cancer in the cervix. Aim: This study is aimed at evaluating various cytological patterns as well as their relationship with age. Methodology: This study employed a retrospective study design. Purposive sampling was used to collect the histological results of 82 patients seen for 4 years at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Asaba, Delta State in Nigeria. Ethical approval was sought from the Research and Ethics Committee of the Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, Delta State University, Abraka in Nigeria. Data collected were analyzed via the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS version 23), Chi-square test was adopted to help determine the association between observed variables. Results: Findings from this study showed patients with the ages of 31-40 years (42.7%) being the most frequently affected with cytological cervical disorders while the least was those within the ages of 41-50 years (28.0%). The preponderance of cervical smear of normal cervical lesions (61.0%) ranked the highest which was followed by Inflammatory cells (20.7%) with the least been squamous cells (1.2%). It was also evaluated from the findings that no significant association existed between age and cervical lesion patterns (p=0.732). Conclusion: From this study, it can be concluded that patients within the ages of 31-40 years of age (42.7%) have a high susceptibility to cytological cervical disorders compared to other age groups. The inflammatory cell pattern was the most commonly observed cytological disorder of the cervix while the least was squamous cell carcinoma. The pattern of cervical smear was not notably associated with the age of the patients.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Asaba</kwd><kwd> Cytological</kwd><kwd> Cervical</kwd><kwd> Patterns</kwd><kwd> Smear</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
