title: Cutaneous cryosurgery.
abstract: Cryosurgery is a therapeutic modality useful for treating cutaneous benign, premalignant, and malignant lesions. It consists of lowering lesional temperature below a critical level to cause its destruction. Lowering skin temperatures without the intent to directly cause lesional destruction (to trigger an immune mechanism, for example) is termed cryotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Abramovits
authors.forename: Malakhat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Losornio
authors.forename: Gabriella
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Marais
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Perlmutter
mesh_terms: D003452:Cryosurgery; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D011182:Postoperative Care; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome