Cervicitis
Common sites:
Gross features:
Histologic features:
- epithelial spongiosis
- submucosal edema
- acute cervicitis:
- PMNs
- Erosion
- Reactive or
reparative epithelial change
- Chronic cervicitis:
- Mononuclear
infiltrate
- Necrosis
- Granulation
tissue
- Squamous metaplasia
- Reserve cell
proliferation in early squamous metaplasia
- Atypical squamous metaplasia may
mimic SIL
- Chlamydia trachomatis:
- Lymphoid
germinal centres (follicular cervicitis)
- Prominent plasmacytic infiltrate
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