Your cervix is the small opening at the bottom part of your uterus, or womb, that connects your vagina and your womb. A cone biopsy is a minor surgery to remove a cone-shaped piece of your cervix.

In a LEEP, your doctor uses an electrified loop of wire to take a sample of tissue from your cervix. You might have this in your gynecologist's office. Your doctor can do a conization (removal of ...

The problem is that detection of HPV and mild abnormalities often lead to more invasive procedures, like colposcopy and cervical conization, that have their own risks. It also leads to unnecessary ...

loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP), cervical conization, and mechanical dilation during uterine evacuation procedure. 1,2 Patients with CI typically present with a history of 1 or more ...

We reviewed 152 cases of cervical conization (cold knife conization or LEEP) performed at Temple University Hospital between January 1, 1992 and July 31, 2001 for which an ECC was obtained and ...

Cervical cancer surgery can be performed in a few ways, depending on the extent of your cancer and whether you want to have children someday. Conization is used to diagnose and treat early ...

Often, these cells can be removed and stopped from turning into cancer through a procedure called a cervical cone biopsy. But after the biopsy, Lenti received the pathology results and learned ...

Preoperative diagnostic pathology reports from LEEP, conization, and cervical biopsy; imaging; and operative and postsurgery pathology reports were requested for quality assurance purposes and ...

Precancerous cervical changes are not curable in the traditional sense since they are not yet cancerous. However, therapies like LEEP, cryotherapy, and cone biopsy can effectively remove abnormal ...

A cone biopsy is a small operation to remove a cone shaped piece of tissue from your cervix. You usually have it under general anaesthetic, which means you are asleep. The operation takes about 20 to ...

We found that as the severity of the disease in the cervical conization specimen increases so does the percentage of patients who have persistent/recurrent disease. Persistent/recurrent disease ...