What are cervical polyps?

  Cervical polyps are a pathological change of chronic cervicitis. It is more common in married women.  The chronic inflammation stimulates the local mucous membrane of the cervical canal to proliferate for a long time, and the uterus has the tendency to exclude foreign bodies, so that the proliferated mucous membrane gradually protrudes from the base to the external cervical opening and forms polyps. According to its origin, one originates from the vaginal part of the cervix and the other from the wall of the cervical canal. Some cervical polyps are asymptomatic and are found during gynecological examinations, one or more redundant organisms are visible on the cervix, generally less than 1cm in diameter, but there are also larger ones, red in color, tongue-shaped, soft and brittle, easy to bleed when gently touched, with long and thin tips. The symptoms are mostly bleeding after intercourse or bloody leucorrhea. For larger cervical polyps, polypectomy should be performed 3-7 days after menstruation. Before surgery, cervical cytology should be routinely performed for the purpose of differential diagnosis with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or cervical cancer, and the removed polyps should also be sent for pathological examination. Surgery only removes the cervical polyps, and does not solve the problem of inflammation, because the inflammation exists, the polyps can still recur after removal, so regular checkups are needed.  Cervical polyps are caused by chronic inflammation and are benign diseases, occasionally malignant, with a malignancy rate of about 0.2%-0.4%.