{"id":3608,"date":"2023-11-21T11:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/hpv-and-cancer\/laser-ablation-of-the-transformation-zone\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:33:05","slug":"laser-ablation-of-the-transformation-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/hpv-and-cancer\/laser-ablation-of-the-transformation-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"LASER ABLATION OF THE TRANSFORMATION ZONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>What is it and how is it done?<\/h4>\n<p>The transformation zone and the lesions are destroyed with a carbon dioxide laser that is aimed through the colposcope.<\/p>\n<p>Local anesthesia is used in the procedure, which is well-tolerated. The doctor ablates the transformation zone tissues by moving the laser beam over the cervical tissue. The tissue must be ablated to a depth of 6-8 mm in order to also destroy the epithelium inside the gland crypts.<\/p>\n<h4>What are the advantages and disadvantages of the method?<\/h4>\n<p>It has many advantages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The procedure is done under local anesthesia.<\/li>\n<li>Only the precise area is ablated. This minimizes the risk for premature labor in the future.<\/li>\n<li>If the technique is correct, healing is excellent.<\/li>\n<li>There is no significant increase in the frequency of premature labor in patients that have had this procedure, compared to the rest of the population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The disadvantages are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no possibility of a histologic examination, since the tissue is destroyed.<\/li>\n<li>It is an expensive method due to the cost of the equipment and requires the doctor\u2019s special training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it and how is it done? The transformation zone and the lesions are destroyed with a carbon dioxide laser that is aimed through the colposcope. Local anesthesia is used in the procedure, which is well-tolerated. The doctor ablates the transformation zone tissues by moving the laser beam over the cervical tissue. The tissue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608"}],"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=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}