Treatment of cervical ectropion by cryosurgery: effect on cervical mucus characteristics

Cryotherapy for cervical lesions: efficacy and patient satisfaction

“…8 Baram et al recommended that infertile patients with hostile cervical mucus and ectropion will be treated by cryosurgery. 9 Present study did not have any infertile patients. Wojtys A, Zdebski Z reported complete recovery in the form of typical stratified squamous epithelium in 95.3% of cases.…”

A Comparison of Flat and Shallow Conical Tips for Cervical Cryotherapy

“…16 Cryotherapy does not affect subsequent fertilityl 7-19 and might actually decr ease hostile cervical mucus. 20 No deleterious effects on labor have been found , although a trend toward more precipitous dilation (defined as less than 3 hours for the first stage of labor) has been reported? I Twenty-four to 48 hours after cervical cryotherapy, the superficial necrotic tissue separates from the stroma because of underlying edema.…”

The Uterine Cervix as an Immune Organ

“…Postcryosurgery postcoital tests may be improved because of a decrease in periovulatory leukocytes. 6 This leukocytic hindrance to sperm penetration has no relationship to sperm antibodies, although the leukocytes may be a response to vaginal bacteria infecting the mucussecreting endocervical cells exposed on the ectocervix by the eversion process. The frequency with which the diagnosis of "chronic cervicitis" is noted on pathology reports at the time of cervical biopsy may result from the cervix's response to coitally transmitted antigens.…”