Colposcopia en situaciones especiales

Abstract

Globally, cervical cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer in women and has the fourth highest death rate of cancers in women. Colposcopy is part of the resources available to medicine for the diagnosis and monitoring of preinvasive lesions and cervical cancer. Well-trained professionals are required to perform an accurate and safe colposcopy. The same cytologic outcome has a different risk of intraepithelial neoplasia 2, 3, or cancer in various groups of women, so several populations require special management considerations, including those younger than 25 years, pregnant women, immunosuppressed women, those who underwent hysterectomy, and those older than 65 years. We conducted this review to update the available information on colposcopy in these special populations.