Vaginal and cervical cytologic changes following laser treatment.

Carbon dioxide laser treatment is a very effective mode of removal of small fragments of tissue from the cervix which causes minimal bleeding and trauma and is followed by rapid healing. Biopsy sections and particularly cytologic preparations obtained from the areas of laser action indicate that squamous and columnar epithelial cells and possibly fibrocytes in the underlying connective tissue are altered, appearing coagulated and elongated similar to cells which have been removed from an area of electrocautery.