Vaginal and cervical cytology in cervical eversion [cervical erosion] and suspicious cervix

ABSTRACT

This study was carried out on 200 non-pregnant women, with ages ranging from 18 up to 48 years. They attended the gynaecologic outpatient clinic, at Mansoura University Hospital. They include 150 women with cervical erorsion and suspicious cervix and 50 women with clinically healthy cervices as controls. A posterior vaginal pool and cervical scraps smears were obtained from each woman using the plastic spatula and stained by Papanicolaou stain. There was an increased incidence of dysplasia among parous women than nulliparous women. Also we found 3 cases of invasive carcinoma of the cervix among the suspicious cervix group and this was proved histopathologically. The chief complaint of cases with cervical erosion was excessive vaginal discharge [57%]. The incidence of dysplasia among cervical erosion groups was 34% [41 out of 120 cases], while the incidence in the suspicious cervix group 52% [14 out of 27 cases] no cases of dysplasia had been found in the control group. We can recommend that each woman during her reproductive period must be checked up by routine cervico-vaginal cytology every 6 months to detect and early lesion which could be easily dealt with as early as possible and abort it before it grows up