ABSTRACT
Se efectuó un estudio descriptivo y transversal de 75 parejas sexualmente activas, tratadas en la consulta estomatológica del Policlínico de Especialidades perteneciente al Hospital Provincial Docente Clinicoquirúrgico "Saturnino Lora Torres" de Santiago de Cuba, desde enero del 2010 hasta igual periodo del 2014, con vistas a determinar la presencia del virus del papiloma humano en la cavidad bucal. Se realizó el examen clínico intrabucal, y como procedimiento diagnóstico corroborativo la colposcopia. Se halló que la totalidad de los integrantes de la serie padecían de esta infección, a pesar de encontrarse asintomáticos en una etapa subclínica donde se observaron pequeñas lesiones exofíticas, aumento de la vascularización y del epitelio blanco. Los resultados citológicos e histológicos obtenidos en la citología exfoliativa y la biopsia confirmaron la presencia de este agente viral dentro de la célula.
A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 75 sexually active couples was carried out, treated in the Stomatology Department from Specialties Polyclinic belonging to "Saturnino Lora Torres" Teaching Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from January, 2010 to the same period of 2014, with the aim of determining the presence of the human papillomavirus in the oral cavity. The clinical intraoral exam was carried out, and the colposcopy was used as corroborative diagnostic procedure. It was found that all the members of the series suffered from this infection, in spite of being asymptomatic in a subclinical stage during which small exophytic injures were observed, increase of the vascularization and of white epithelium. The cytological and histological results obtained in the exfoliative cytology and the biopsy confirmed this viral agent's presence inside the cell.