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Postpartum colposcopy of the cervix: injury and healing
Author(s) -
Fahmy K.,
ElGazar A.,
Sammour M.,
Nosair M.,
Salem A.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(91)90227-v
Subject(s) - medicine , colposcopy , cervix , obstetrics , cervical canal , pregnancy , surgery , cervical cancer , cancer , biology , genetics
Colposcopic examination was done in 189 successive parturients within 6–48 h of delivery for evidence of type, site, and extent of cervical trauma and its relation to various obstetric factors. There was trauma in 66% of cases, as erosion in 79%, as laceration in 56%, as bruising in 30%, and as yellow areas in 17%. In about two‐thirds of cases, the diameter of cervical erosion, or the length of laceration did not exceed 5 mm and 81% of lacerations were of first degree. Cervical injury was significantly more frequent in primiparae, in the anterior cervical lip, in occipito‐posterior positions, and with premature rupture of membranes. In 117 parturients with cervical injury another colposcopic examinaiton was done 6–8 weeks postpartum. In 8% there was residual cervical damage.