Cervicitis: How Often Is It Non-specific!

Abstract

Uterine cervix is most often reported as 'non specific cervicitis'. It is an effort to encourage specific reporting and thereby avoiding the term 'non specific' to a possible extent. The study is carried out on 613 specimens of uterine cervix received at Department of Pathology, Aarupadai Veedu Medical College, Pondicherry, between 1(st) January 2010 to 31(st) December 2012. Histopathology slides of all the cases were studied for the presence of specific features of various inflammatory lesions. RESULTS are expressed in percentage. Chronic nonspecific cervicitis was the commonest inflammatory lesion constituting 89.23% of the cases. Other inflammatory lesions were follicular cervicitis in 6.85%, chronic cervicitis with koilocytosis in 3.75% and only one case (0.16%) of tuberculosis was observed. Importance of these benign lesions of the uterine cervix lies in the fact that some of them like Chlamydia, Papilloma infection have specific treatment and some of them form differential diagnosis for malignant lesions and some progress to malignancy.