[Ambulatory cryosurgical restoration of benign cervical lesions]

The area of ectopic epithelium and transformations zone of the uterine cervix was treated cryosurgically by liquid nitrogen in 252 patients. The influence of deep freeze lasted four minutes. Neither analgesia nor anaesthesia was necessary. After a single cryosurgery cure rate was 92 per cent, after a second application 98 per cent. Cryotherapy can be performed ambulatorily and is nowadays to be regarded as method of choice to restore benign cervical lesions.