Abstract
Colposcopy uses histopathology for correlation and control, although each method is quite different. Colposcopy is the evaluation of the surface of the living total organ, while pathology deals with dead, fixed, and rigid tissue sections. The magnification is quite different, 6-40 × for colposcopy and usually 40-100 × for histology. The colpomicroscope of Antoine and Grunberger and later Fujimori gave true microscopic visualization of the surface epithelium, similar to an in vivo histopathologic section, but was not a practical instrument. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has somewhat the same relationship to the transmission electron microscope (TEM) as the colposcope has to the light microscope for histopathology of the cervix.
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Wilbanks, G.D. (1988). Colposcopic Basis of Histologic Correlation. In: Stegner, HE., Coppleson, M. (eds) Colposcopy in Diagnosis and Treatment of Preneoplastic Lesions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72761-0_7
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