General
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• 2-5% of adult women
• Usually multigravida age 30-59 years
• Produces bleeding or mucoid discharge
• Probably secondary to chronic inflammation and not neoplastic

Case reports
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• 5 year old girl with multilocular cystic polyp (Pediatr Pathol 1993;13:415)
• 33 year old woman with heterologous cartilage and adipose tissue (Pathol Int 2001;51:305)

Clinical images
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Polyp

Gross description
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• Usually single, up to 1 cm
• Rarely mimics malignant tumor protruding into endocervical canal

Gross images
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Polyp

Micro description
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• Dilated endocervical (mucus) glands in inflamed, myxoid stroma
• Papillary endocervicitis if branching papillary structure
• Surface epithelium may show squamous metaplasia
• Thick-walled blood vessels at base of polyp
• No mitotic figures

Micro images
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Whole mount

Various images

Cytology description
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• See Cervix - cytology

Differential diagnosis
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• Superficial cervicovaginal myofibroblastoma

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