title: [Cryosurgery of precancerous conditions of the oral cavity and pharynx].
abstract: In ENT Clinic, II Faculty of Medical Academy in Warszawa 108 patients with precancerous lesions were treated by cryosurgery during the years 1975-84. In 43 patients the lesions were in oral and in pharyngeal cavities, 33 out of 43 have had before the cryosurgery some form of therapy, conservative or radical without lasting effects. In all treated cryosurgically patients the positive results were obtained, which were consecutively verified during 3 to 9 years of observations. There were no malignant transformations, no other complications. The authors found, that the cryosurgery is a promising method of therapy in precancerous lesions.
authors.affiliation: Z Katedry i Kliniki Oto-Ryno-Laryngologii II Wydziału Lekarskiego AM w Warszawie.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moszyński
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kolanowski
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miszka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003452:Cryosurgery / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007972:Leukoplakia, Oral / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010212:Papilloma / Q000601:surgery*; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D011230:Precancerous Conditions / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Kriochirurgia stanów przedrakowych jamy ustnej i gardła.