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Colposcopy
Indication for Colposcopy
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Satisfactory Colposcopy:
360 degree view of the T-zone
Proximal and distal extent of cervical lesions seen
Etiology
Increasing intercapillary
distance
Coarse punctation
Hyperkeratosis ( Leukoplakia)
Geographic satellite lesion
Early invasive cancer: note the raised irregular mosaics with umbilication (a), breaking
mosaics (b), surface irregularity & the atypical vessels after the application of 5% AA
Invasive cervical cancer
Atypical
Vessels
patternِ
the greyish white dense acetowhite lesion with The elongated, dense acetowhite lesion with
character writning-like atypical blood vessels(a) irregular surface in the columnar epithelium
with atypical blood vessels (a)
Inflammatory lesions of the
Uterine Cervix