If you have an abnormal Pap result, your doctor may order further testing like a biopsy. A Papanicolaou test, commonly called a Pap smear, tests for abnormal cells in your cervix — the area ...

Often, these cells can be removed and stopped from turning into cancer through a procedure called a cervical cone biopsy. But after the biopsy, Lenti received the pathology results and learned ...

A colposcopy is an office procedure that uses a special microscope (colposcope) to examine the tissue lining the cervix and walls of the vagina for abnormal areas. If needed, small samples of tissue ...

It is an office-based procedure during which the cervix is examined under illumination and magnification before and after application of dilute acetic acid. Colposcopy may include a biopsy of ...

A 29-year-old African woman, gravida 3 para 1, was referred at 16 weeks of gestation with a polypoid hemorrhagic cervical lesion, with low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cervical cytology.