CO2 laser vaporization for chronic cervicitis.

Chronic cervicitis is the most common disease occurring during the period of greatest sexual activity and reproductivity, and it is the most common gynecologic disease in young women. The disease is a common sequel to normal delivery and one of the main causes of infertility; it also may be precancerous. All the treated women in the present study exhibited preoperatively severe subjective symptoms for chronic cervicitis, and 32 out of 60 (53%) exhibited colposcopically atypical squamous epithelium. The women were examined 3, 6, and 12 months following laser surgery: 58 (97%) of them reported a decreasing intensity of their symptoms, and colposcopy revealed a normal postlaser transformation zone as well as a decreasing edema of cervical epithelium.