Abstract: Attendees will: Assess how cryosurgery works to selectively destroy lesional skin while preserving surrounding healthy tissues. Identify lesions and patients for whom cryosurgery may be the treatment of choice. Select equipment to optimize the performance of cryosurgery. When cryosurgery is skillfully performed the cure rates for many types of skin cancers, pre-malignant and benign lesions should be high, the peri- and post-operative morbidity should be minor, and the cosmetic result gratifying. Cryosurgery is very operator dependent; it requires fundamental knowledge in the physics of cryobiology, skin anatomy and physiology, pathology, and the clinical acumen that is to be expected only from a dermatologist. I will present the proper selection of lesions, patients, and technique. The most recent literature on the subject will be critically reviewed as will the latest instrumentation and equipment.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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