Patient's question:
I have mild cervical erosion. My friend said that cervical erosion is a normal phenomenon, and I've never really understood it. It's said that every woman has cervical erosion. Is cervical erosion a normal physiological phenomenon?Doctor's answer:
Cervical erosion has been abandoned abroad and is gradually being abandoned in China. It is now referred to as cervical columnar epithelial ectopia. Physiological cervical erosion is a normal physiological phenomenon. After puberty, under the effect of estrogen, the cervix develops and enlarges, and the mucosal tissue of the cervical canal is extruded outward. Because the single-layered columnar epithelium of the cervical canal is thin, the underlying stroma, appearing as a fine-grained red area, which looks like erosion to the naked eye but is actually not true erosion.