Cutaneous cryosurgery.
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.
Abramovits
William
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Department of Dermatology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Losornio
Malakhat
M
Marais
Gabriella
G
Perlmutter
Amy
A
D003452:Cryosurgery; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D011182:Postoperative Care; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome