title: Carbon dioxide laser treatment of cervical dysplasia in teenagers.
abstract: Over a 6-year period, 40 young women under 20 years of age with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grade I (58%) to grade III (10%) were treated by laser vaporisation or excisional conisation. This prevalence of CIN in young women (nearly 4% of laser-treated cases) underscores the need for detection of cervical abnormalities in all teenagers engaged in sexual relations. The colposcopically-guided carbon dioxide laser technique is the treatment of choice for vaporisation and conisation of intraepithelial lesions (extending to the periphery of the cervix in 20% of cases) and for vaporisation of associated condylomatous lesions of the cervix (75%), vagina (23%), vulva (48%) and/or anus (8%).
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Reproduction Biology, Nantes University Hospital, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sagot
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mensier
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barrière
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Boog
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002278:Carcinoma in Situ / Q000601:surgery*; D003218:Condylomata Acuminata / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D015995:Prevalence; D002578:Uterine Cervical Dysplasia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*