Pay attention! What is the difference between cervical columnar epithelium ectopia and cervical erosion

Cervical columnar ectopia is a common gynecological disease and a physiological phenomenon that occurs during the menstrual period. Many people believe that cervical columnar ectopia is cervical erosion, which is an incorrect understanding. So what exactly does cervical columnar ectopia mean?

What is cervical columnar epithelium ectopia ?

Cervical ectropion (also translated as cervical columnar epithelial eversion, formerly mistakenly called cervical erosion) is a physiological phenomenon of eversion of the cervical columnar epithelium that occurs during the menstrual period. Although cervical columnar epithelium ectopia is not abnormal, it is difficult to distinguish from early cervical cancer, so further examinations (such as cervical cytology (Papanicolaou test), colposcopy and biopsy) are necessary for differential diagnosis.

Clinical manifestations

Cervical columnar epithelium ectopia is a normal physiological phenomenon with no special clinical manifestations. Some people may experience contact bleeding, but this is just an individual difference in the cervix, just like some people may bleed from their teeth or mouth when they chew something hard, which is understandable. For cervicitis, if there is an increase in vaginal discharge, yellowing, or an odor, these are manifestations of cervicitis, which are symptoms that occur after an infection occurs on the cervix. Nabothian cyst and cervical hypertrophy are also the result of chronic cervical inflammation.

treat

Cervical columnar epithelium ectopia is a normal physiological phenomenon. The world's authoritative textbooks believe that cervical erosion has nothing to do with cervical cancer. Asymptomatic cervical erosion without pathogen infection does not need to be treated, but cervical erosion with symptoms or pathogen infection should be treated.