The congenital cervicovaginal transformation zone in sexually active young women.
A total of 110 sexually active teenage girls was screened cytologically and colposcopically; 71 of them had areas of aceto-white epithelium within the cervicovaginal transformation zone. Of these 54 had long-term follow-up and over a mean period of 36 months the aceto-white epithelium was observed to disappear in 26. In the remaining 28 girls aceto-white areas persisted largely unchanged over the period of follow-up. The characteristics of these persistent aceto-white areas are documented and suggestions with regard to their origins and significance are made.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003127:Colposcopy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D014621:Vagina / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000648:ultrastructure