One of the most common female diseases is cervical erosion. It occurs most often in women aged 25 to 40 years and is a benign formation of the vaginal part of the cervix - a pathological change in epithelial tissues. Since the formation is benign, the risk of converting to malignant is low, but, in some cases, depending on the type of erosion, it still exists.
It is very difficult to identify the disease, since at the initial stage it develops asymptomatically and is most often detected during a gynecological examination. The pathological process with cervical erosion is characterized by the replacement of the normal mucous epithelium with the cylindrical epithelium of the cervical canal under the influence of adverse factors.
The reasons for the appearance of such a common disease as cervical erosion are many - genital infections, chronic genital inflammation, mechanical damage (abortion or rupture during childbirth), and lowered immunity.
Cervical erosion is of three types:
- ectopia or pseudo-erosion - a pathological change in which the cylindrical cells of the cervical canal completely replace normal squamous cells . At the gynecological examination, ectopia looks like a red section. Pseudo-erosion can exist unnoticed for a long time and without treatment this type of erosion does not go away. In the absence of atypical cells, the risk of degeneration of ectopia into cancer is very low. The likelihood of a cancer of the cervix uteri increases many times in the presence of the papilloma virus with a high oncogenic risk;
- congenital ectopy of cylindrical cells of the cervical canal epithelium looks like the formation of a roundish shape of bright red color. Congenital ectopia appears in adolescence and very often disappears on its own as suddenly as it occurs. This type of erosion can rarely be transformed into a malignant formation;
- true uterine erosion (the initial stage of ectopia) is also detected during examination and has the form of a round red spot up to one centimeter in diameter. This type of erosion exists for a rather short period of time, up to two weeks, after which it passes into ectopia. The risk of degeneration of this type of erosion into a malignant tumor is also very low.
Depending on the patient’s type of disease and the presence of any other concomitant diseases, cervical erosion can be treated using different methods.
Cervical erosion, treatment
Modern medicine offers fairly simple and quick methods of treatment, but the main condition for successful getting rid of the disease is no initiative, only a qualified doctor will be able to choose the right treatment for each patient individually.
In general, the entire process of getting rid of this disease has three stages. Initially, local anti-inflammatory treatment is performed, which includes procedures such as douching and baths. For reliable preoperative rehabilitation and prevention of infectious complications in the postoperative period, fluomizine is used. This part of the therapy is considered preparatory and can be carried out by the patient independently at home. After that, for the final diagnosis, a histological analysis is performed - a biopsy of the cervical tissue. According to the results of the biopsy and depending on what stage of the healing process, cauterization, cryodestruction or diathermoexcision are carried out. All these procedures take little time and are almost painless. With the timely detection of the disease, treatment is very effective, therefore, in no case should you neglect regular preventive examinations.