loop electrosurgical excision procedure , LEEP (Abkürzung)

LEEP is short for loop electrosurgical excision procedure.

Loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) is one of the most commonly used approaches to treat high grade cervical dysplasia.

LEEP (Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure) removes the cells using a wire loop. You may have to have treatment more than once because the treatments don't always reach all of the affected cells the first time.

For women who have undergone the existing treatment to remove the lesions -- by scalpel, by lasers, by freezing or removing lesions with what's known as a loop electrosurgical excision procedure -- the idea of a therapeutic vaccine is all too welcome.

The new method, called Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure, or LEEP, was developed in Britain about three years ago, said Dr. Alex Ferenczy, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McGill University Medical School in Toronto.

Also called loop electrosurgical excision procedure and loop excision.

Histological CIN 2+ is treated with cryotherapy or loop electrosurgical excision procedure.

Types of cone biopsy are LEEP (loop electrosurgical excision procedure) and cold knife conization (cold knife cone biopsy).