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Colpophotographs taken at consecutive visits for 1 woman. Ectopy, defined as areas of columnar and early-mid-metaplastic epithelium, is shown here by a manual outline (solid black line) and measured as a percentage of the total cervical face. A, Ectopy is 62% at visit 1. B, Ectopy is 25% at visit 2. C, Ectopy is 9% at visit 3. For this woman, HPV 16 DNA detection by cervical sampling was negative at visits 1 and 2 and positive at visit 3.
