Clinical Information on Chronic Cervicitis

Diagnostic criteria

• Chronic changes of portio (lacerations, mucosal versions)
• Ample and persistent vaginal discharge, where cultivation of chlamydia, mycoplasma genital, gonorrhea and herpes are negative

Differential

• Sexually transmissible infection, for example. Chlamydia

Medical history

• Ample and persistent vaginal discharge
• Often slimy discharge with periods of pus
• Udflådet can also be bloody

Clinical findings

• Portio hypertrophic / uneven surface
• Red portio, ectopic mucosa
• Often slimy and purulent discharge

Additional studies in general practice

• cytological examination
• chlamydia test
• Genital mycoplasma test 1
• Possibly. microscopy of vaginal discharge will show normal flora and inflammatory cells

other studies

• Important to exclude malignancy, initially by cytology

When to refer the patient?

• Refer to colposcopy if cytology findings dictate

Treatment goals

• Reduce the mucus producing Ectopic

Generally about the treatment

• antibiotics
• Cryosurgery
• silver nitrate
• Depot medroxyprogesterone

Forecast

• The prognosis is good, safe condition
• Tendency to relapse after treatment

What you should inform the patient

• Chronic cervicitis is a disorder that occurs with increasing frequency with age
• The woman plagued by mucus discharge with pus, possibly. blood admixture
• No bacterial infection
• Featuring mucus producing lining of the womb to the cervix
• Treatment is aimed at stopping mucus production