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The congenital cervicovaginal transformation zone in sexually active young women
Author(s) -
McDONNELL J. M.,
EMENS J. M.,
JORDAN J. A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1984.tb04806.x
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , sexually active , vagina , medicine , gynecology , biology , anatomy , environmental health , population , biochemistry , gene
Summary A total of 110 sexually active teenage girls was screened cytologically and colposcopically; 71 of them had areas of aceto‐white epithelium within the cervicovaginal transformation zone. Of these 54 had long‐term follow‐up and over a mean period of 36 months the aceto‐white epithelium was observed to disappear in 26. In the remaining 28 girls aceto‐white areas persisted largely unchanged over the period of follow‐up. The characteristics of these persistent aceto‐white areas are documented and suggestions with regard to their origins and significance are made.