Therapeutic benefits of carbon dioxide (CO2) laser on single-site HPV lesions in the lower female genital tract

Giovanni Urru; Gianfranco Moretti

doi:10.1117/12.300841

19 January 1998 Therapeutic benefits of carbon dioxide (CO₂) laser on single-site HPV lesions in the lower female genital tract

Giovanni Urru, Gianfranco Moretti

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Proceedings Volume 3193, Photothermal Therapies in Medicine; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.300841
Event: BiOS Europe '97, 1997, San Remo, Italy

Abstract

Numerous studies have shown contradictory variable percentages of recurrent HPV lesions, after various therapies. The present study therefore evaluates the effectiveness of CO₂ laser vaporization in the treatment of single-site HPV lesions of the lower female genital tract in order to confirm the conviction that physical therapy alone, in agreement with some findings reported in the literature, is capable of guaranteeing a high cure rate in selected patients. From January 1995 to June 1996, seventy- five female patients were treated with CO₂ laser vaporization for single-site genital HPV lesions, some of which were associated with low-grade intra-epithelial neoplasia. The success rate after 12 months proved to be 97%. The pre-existing clinical symptoms disappeared in all the patients treated. No complication in the vaporization procedure was encountered.

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Giovanni Urru and Gianfranco Moretti "Therapeutic benefits of carbon dioxide (CO₂) laser on single-site HPV lesions in the lower female genital tract", Proc. SPIE 3193, Photothermal Therapies in Medicine, (19 January 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.300841

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