[The "white" cervix: a new anatomo-clinical entity?]

The authors describe a very particular histologic pattern of the cervical epithelium. Many types of histologic lesions are involved and are almost always found in association one with another. This particular histologic pattern is characterized principally by well-differentiated epithelium, immature, with early necrosis of the superficial layers, associated with metaplastic endocervicitis. In addition to this particular association, there is a remarkable finding: this histologic pattern was found consistently in fifteen cases selected uniquely from their appearance at colposcopy. Could this be a new anatomic-histologic entity?