[Diathermic loop treatment of subclinical cervical infection by human papilloma virus (HPV). Short-term effectiveness]. / Tratamiento de la infección cervical subclínica por el virus del papiloma humano (VPH) con asa diatérmica. Eficacia a corto plazo.

Multiple modalities of treatment have been employed since cervical subclinical papillomavirus (SPI) were discovered, with various degrees of success. The objective of this report is to assess the efficacy of the removal of cervical SPI by mean of LEEP in office conization. During the period from January 1992 and December 1993, 49 patients with histologically proven HPV infection were treated at the Private Colposcopic Clinic with LEEP. Patients ages ranged from 20 to 49 years old with average 36.1 years, mostly were parous woman. Satisfactory specimens suitable for histologic examination was obtained and in all cases margins of excisions appeared histologically clear of HPV infections patients discomfort was none or minimal in 45 patients (91.8%) and moderate in 4 (8.1%). There were 5 cases (10.2%) of postoperative haemorrhage and 3 cases (6.1%) of minimal cervical infections. The mean base of cone biopsy was 1.43 cm, and ranged from 1.0 to 3.0 cm. The overall cure rate of LEEP was 98% because there was only one confirmed case of treatment failures by loop conization. We concluded that this term results are satisfactory.