Colposcopy for postmenopausal women.
The number of postmenopausal women colposcopically diagnosed has markedly increased during the last 15 years. In some of them, a clear colposcopic impression, required for planning an appropriate therapy, was disturbed by severe senile cervicocolpitis, when examined by the conventional technique using acetic acid. With a 5-year experience of 79 paired colposcopies, it was concluded that estrogen administration is necessary as a routine precolposcopic procedure in such cases and oral administration of conjugated estrogens at 1.25 mg/day for 14 days is adequate for this purpose.
Kishi
Y
Y
Inui
S
S
Sakamoto
Y
Y
Mori
T
T
D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000473:pathology; D003127:Colposcopy / Q000379:methods*; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004966:Estrogens, Conjugated (USP); D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008593:Menopause; D008679:Metaplasia / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002575:Uterine Cervicitis / Q000473:pathology; D014627:Vaginitis / Q000473:pathology
D004966:Estrogens, Conjugated (USP)