Effect of cryotherapy and povidone-iodine preparation on eradication of DNA corresponding to highly oncogenic HPV in women with lesions in the uterine cervix.

In all 88 patients, 23-67 years of age (mean of 34.8 years) with abnormal cytology, lesions in the uterine cervix and presence of DNA corresponding to highly oncogenic HPV, two cycles of uterine cervix cryotherapy and local treatment with povidone-iodine resulted in eradication of the virus six months after detection of the virus.