[Vaginoscopic investigation of the cervical ectopy in the neonate (author's transl)].

The percentage of the physiologic ectopy of the endocervical epithelium onto the portio vaginalis of the cervix in the neonate was unknown. Vaginoscopy of 124 new born females in our Obstetric unit showed that the ectopy of the cervix is not found in 36% but in almost all cases (90%). Colposcopy and cytology excluded pathology of the portio. The cervical ectopy retracts in the physiologic involution process of the neonate. Vaginoscopy of the newborn was technically quite feasible and in some cases medically necessary.