title: Giant cervical polyp: a case report and review of a rare entity.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  If cervical polyps are a common pathology in the female adult population, giant cervical polyps with a size greater than 4 cm are rare and until now only several cases have been described in literature. The size and the clinical presentation can mimic a cervical neoplasia. The management is surgical and can be conservative regarding to the benign pathological feature of this entity.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report the case of a giant cervical polyp of 5.5 cm occurring in a multiparous 47-year-old woman who clinically presented vaginal bleeding. The lesion was resected by electrosurgery with no recurrence 7 months after surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The diagnosis, management and outcome of this rare entity had been reviewed according to the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynaecology, Erasme University Hospital, Free University of Brussels (ULB), 808, Route de Lennik, 1070, Brussels, Belgium. dbucella@ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: Dario
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bucella
authors.forename: Buxant
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Frédéric
authors.forename: Jean-Christophe
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Noël
mesh_terms: D004564:Electrocoagulation; D005260:Female; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011127:Polyps / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002577:Uterine Cervical Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery