{"id":3497,"date":"2023-11-20T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/hpv-and-cancer\/how-are-genital-warts-destroyed\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:15:11","slug":"how-are-genital-warts-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/genital-warts\/how-are-genital-warts-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"How are genital warts destroyed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The usual methods are:<\/p>\n<p>Destruction of genital warts with cryotherapy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cryotherapy is frequently used to destroy warts. The lesions are destroyed by directly freezing them, with liquid nitrogen applied as a spray or through a cryoprobe. No local anesthesia is usually given and the pain is tolerable. It is considered as a safe method during pregnancy. It is repeated every 1-2 weeks until the complete elimination of the lesions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Electro-cauterization of the genital warts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electrodiathermy is applied after local anesthesia, if there is a limited number of genital warts, or after general anesthesia if the lesions are many or extensive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Laser surgery<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laser ablation has significant advantages, but is used more rarely compared to the other methods because it is both more costly and requires special training by the doctor.<\/li>\n<li>A significant advantage of the method is that the laser beam can be directed by the colposcope toward hard-to-reach areas, where the doctor needs more light and magnification (e.g. the vagina, anus and urethra). The method is also better compared to the others when there are a large number of warts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u039a\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4118 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u039a\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"505\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The usual methods are: Destruction of genital warts with cryotherapy Cryotherapy is frequently used to destroy warts. The lesions are destroyed by directly freezing them, with liquid nitrogen applied as a spray or through a cryoprobe. No local anesthesia is usually given and the pain is tolerable. It is considered as a safe method during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3498,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/3498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}