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Imaging
• Chest x-ray.
• CT and MRI scans of the abdomen and pelvis.
Endoscopy and Biopsy
• Cystoscopy .
• Sigmoidoscopy .
• All women with an abnormal Pap smear or cervical lesions should undergo an office colposcopic examination.
A colposcope is an instrument that can magnify the cervix from 7.5 to 15 times.
• The definitive diagnosis is made on a biopsy. Early cancers are occasionally diagnosed by a large biopsy of the
cervix, known as a cone biopsy . A cervical conization should be done when colposcopy cannot determine if
there is not an invasive cancer , when there are no obvious lesions on the cervix and the Pap smear is
consistently abnormal, when a colposcopically directed biopsy does not adequately account for abnormal cells
found on a Pap smear, when a diagnosis of microinvasion (early invasion) is found on the biopsy or when a
cervical intraepithelial neoplasia is identified by a scraping from the cervical canal (endocervical curettage).