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Published on: March 7, 2011
Cutaneous cryosurgery
William Abramovits1, Malakhat Losornio, Gabriella Marais
1Department of Dermatology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Dermatology Nursing
|November 30, 2006
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.

