| After normal saline |
| After acetic acid |
| After Lugol’s iodine |
General assessment | |||||||||||||||||
Normal colposcopic findings | |||||||||||||||||
Abnormal colposcopic findings | |||||||||||||||||
General principles | |||||||||||||||||
Position and size | |||||||||||||||||
Grade 1 (minor)
| Grade 2 (major)
| Non-specific
| Suspicious for invasion
| Miscellaneous finding
| |
| Nil or transparent | Thin, milky | Distinct, stearin | |
| Nil or diffuse | Sharp but irregular, jagged, satellites | Sharp and even, difference in level | |
| Fine, regular | Absent | Coarse or atypical vessels | |
| < 5 mm | 5-15 mm or 2 quadrants | >15 mm, 3-4 quadrants, or endocervically undefined | |
| Brown | Faintly or patchy yellow | Distinctly yellow |
| Provisional diagnosis: | Type 2 transformation zone; leukoplakia. |
| Management: | Punch biopsy may be obtained from the bigger lesion. Biopsy may be omitted because both lesions are outside the transformation zone. |
| Histopathology: | LSIL-HPV changes. |
| Comment: | Leukoplakia may be induced by HPV infection. |