[IS THERE A PLACE FOR VIA AND VILI IN OUR PRACTICE].

UNLABELLED: The aim of this review is to discuss the possibilities and disadvantages of the techniques for visual inspection of the uterine cervix with acetic acid (VIA) and with Lugol's iodine (VILI) for early detection of cervical neoplasia. Efficient cervical screening method, approved in practice, is cytology--PAP smear. The lack of organized screening program in Bulgaria is the reason why a lot of cases of cervical cancer are missed or diagnosed late. This raises the question for searching alternative tests to assess the uterine cervix that do not use special techniques and have a reasonable cost. Published results show that VIA and VILI represent an appropriate alternative for cervical screening. The results of VIA and VILI are immediately available and do not require any laboratory processing.

CONCLUSION: Both types of visual inspection of the uterine cervix are easy to accomplish, fast--the result is available at the moment of inspection, they do not require special equipment, the correlation between sensitivity and specificity is good and last but not least--they have low price. VIA and VILI have certain position in our practice.