title: [Nine years' experience of tumor cryotherapy in the cranial region (author's transl)].
abstract: The excellent results of more than nine years work in cryosurgery of 1540 cases of tumors of the head are discussed from an ophthalmological and dermatological viewpoint. The majority were basal cell carcinomas of the lids. In the five-year follow-up period 5.5% of basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas turned out to be recidives. The paper discusses the techniques of cryosurgical treatment, data from temperature measurements and histological investigations and the possibility of qualitative evaluation of cryodestruction of tumors by means of low-frequency electrical impedance measurements.
mesh_terms: D003452:Cryosurgery; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005142:Eyelid Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000601:surgery; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
vernacular_title: 9jährige Erfahrungen mit der Kryotherapie von Tumoren im Kopfbereich in 1540 Fällen.