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Innovative solutions designed to enhance patient care and clinical outcomes in Womens Health.

SoftBiopsy

Single-use Kylon® pad for gentle ectocervical friction biopsy; snap-off head to fixative.

✔ Trans-epithelial

✔ Snap-off Transport

✔ Gentler than Punch

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Soft ECC

Blunted, tapered Kylon® tip for endocervical curettage; rotate and drop into fixative.

✔ Abundant ECC

✔ Fabric "Tissue Trap"

✔ Direct-to-fixative

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Soft ECC-S

Smaller, tapered Kylon® ECC device for narrow/stenotic canals.

✔ Small, Tapered Pad

✔ Fits Narrow Canals

✔ Efficient Capture

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Spirabrush

Spiral bristle brush for ectocervical trans-epithelial biopsy; snaps off for transport.

✔ Punch-biopsy Alt

✔ Spiral Bristle Capture

✔ Snap-off Head

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What is Kylon?

Kylon® — gentle micro-hook fabric for precise debridement and biopsy.

primer kylonc Kylon® is a patented medical fabric made of fenestrated loop “micro-hooks” woven into nylon; when lightly pressed and rotated, the hooks flex to engage epithelium, lift tissue by frictional de-bonding, and trap the sample within the fabric. It enables selective, layer-by-layer removal and specimen capture with a minimally invasive, “compassionate” technique used across women’s health (e.g., SoftBiopsy®) and wound care.

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Recent Articles & Insights

Stay informed with the latest research, innovations, and best practices in gynecological care.

Compassionate Colposcopy®

22 January 2022 | Histologics Women's Health | Histologics GX

Kylon® Hooked-Fabric Biopsy Technology

Histologics LLC is proud to have developed Soft-ECC® endocervical curette, and the SoftBiopsy® exocervical gynecological biopsy device. Both devices employ a multipatented hooked fabric (Kylon®) that simultaneously biopsies with frictional raking/de-bonding of epithelium from stroma, and traps and stores the tissue for transport to the lab.

The Soft-ECC® and SoftBiopsy® were developed with the patient care experience in mind. The Soft-ECC® design is intended to fit into most endocervical canals and yield an abundant biopsy sample. The ECC procedure is usually performed to remove tissue from the endocervical canal for histological analysis during colposcopy or during the diagnostic work-up of abnormal peri-menopausal or menopausal bleeding. Unlike cytobrush sampling which is a cytologic screening modality, Soft-ECC® curettage produces diagnostic histological samples.

Webinar: A Review of Kylon®

14 October 2025 | Histologics Women's Health | References

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How Kylon® Removes Diagnostic Biopsy Specimens with SoftBiopsy®, Soft-ECC®

08 November 2023 | Histologics Women's Health | References

How Kylon® Removes Diagnostic Biopsy Specimens with SoftBiopsy®, Soft-ECC® - Video

Research Supports Compassionate New Biopsy Approach For Women's Health In Cervical Cancer Prevention

22 January 2022 | Histologics Women's Health | Media and Press Releases

(3) Mogolia; Gynecologic Research Foundation, USA 2020 - A study conducted in concert with this not for profit organization and the National Cancer Institute evaluated a rapid, high volume system to screen, biopsy, triage and when indicated, treat women at risk of harboring high grade cervical cancer precursors. A bedside rapid colposcopic imaging system and Histologics' SoftBiopsy® device was used to diagnose women at risk who underwent treatment.

Trusted by Healthcare Professionals

Hear from the medical experts who rely on our devices every day.

“The Soft-ECC rotation method assures I get a 360 degree sample with every biopsy". "The samples are abundant and diagnostic and the patients seem more comfortable than when I used the Kevorkian curette.” — Ronald Kohorn MD, Ob/Gyn

“I’m really pleased with the instruments you developed and am using them exclusively. Nice samples, not much discomfort, not too deep, and nothing to sterilize!” — Myron R. Kanofsky M.D

“I cannot say enough good things about these products. They have transformed my colposcopy practice beyond description. My patients no longer have to be in fear of having a colpo performed on them. And it's so easy to collect the specimen!! Every GYN on the planet should be using these, no decisions!!” — Sean Wengroff, MD

“I have been a long time Spirabrush CX user and like it most for the versatility of reaching lesions off the central cervix at the periphery. I like the SoftBiopsy for lesions at the center of the cervix near the os, at or inside the transformation zone. I love the Soft-ECC and occasionally still use the Kevorkian currette for stenotic cervices, but am willing to try the Soft-ECC-S for those cases” — James H. Schultz, MD, MBA, FAAFP, DiMM

“I find these soft biopsies really useful, especially when it is difficult to get a good biopsy with traditional forceps - these yield excellent tissue samples” — Simone Cox, RNNP