The effect of pregnancy on the cervical squamocolumnar junction in patients with abnormal cervical cytology.
During a 6 1/2 year study period the author used colposcopy to evaluate 174 pregnant patients with abnormal cervical cytology. Of these patients, 42% had an exocervical squamocolumnar junction. In those patients beyond the age of 25, or with a parity greater than 1, 80% had endocervical junctions. The predominant effect of pregnancy is to stimulate endocervical migration of this junction.
D000328:Adult; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000473:pathology*; D003127:Colposcopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*