nabothian follicle


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Noun1.nabothian follicle - a cyst that forms in the nabothian glands of the uterine cervix
cyst - a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure
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1 Chronic cervicitis 156 70.90% 2 Chronic cervicitis with squamous metaplasia 17 7.73% 3 Chronic cervicitis with squamous metaplasia 29 13.18% and nabothian follicle. 4 Endocervical polyp 1 0.45% 5 Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (III) 2 0.9% 6 Squamous cell carcinoma 14 6.36% 7 Adenocarcinoma 1 0.45% Table 5.
We found chronic cervicitis in 70.90% followed by chronic cervicitis with squamous metaplasia and nabothian follicles in 13.18% and chronic cervicitis with squamous metaplasia in 7.73% making altogether incidence of chronic cervicitis to 91.81%, which was close to what was found by Jha R et al [11] (96.3%) and Rather GR et al [10] (89.39%), thereby making this as the most common histological finding.