It is benign and has no malignant potential. This is a small, pedunculated, often sessile mass. This is the most common cervical growth especially in multigravidae but rare before menarche. It is usually asymptomatic and found incidentally. Occasionally it may cause intermittent vaginal or postcoital bleeding, a discharge or, in older women, postmenopausal bleeding.
Endocervical polyps are more likely to bleed than their ectocervical counterparts.
They appear as single, red, smooth or lobulated, polypoid growths projecting from the external os. They vary in size but typically are less than 1 cm. Ectocervical polyps are pale, flesh-colored, smooth and rounded, often with a broad pedicle. The lesion is characterized by overgrowth of benign stroma covered by epithelium. Endocervical polyps are covered by endocervical, squamocolumnar or metaplastic squamous epithelium while ectocervical ones are covered by stratified squamous epithelium.