Abstract

ESTRADA PEREIRA, Gladys Aída et al. Infection due to the human papillomavirus in the oral cavity. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.3, pp. 300-306. ISSN 1029-3019.

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

Keywords : human papillomavirus; colposcopy; lesion exophytic; exfoliative cytology; biopsy; secondary health care.

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