[Cryotherapy of condylomata acuminata]

Between 1972 and 1982, 162 women between the ages of 15 and 66 were treated with cryosurgery at the Gynaecological Department of the Medical Academy Erfurt. 43 of these patients were pregnant between the twelfth and the thirty-second gestational week. - Until 24 months after the first cryosurgery we found one to four recurrences of condylomata acuminata in 14 patients which were treated cryosurgically again. Report is given about one case of condylomata acuminata gigantea, treated by cryosurgery, too. Contrary to electroresection and surgical resection after chlorethyl-freezing we think cryosurgery has an advantage in quickly necrosing, sequestering without further surgical measurements and healing without scars. - Therefore we consider cryosurgery as the most efficient method in the treatment of condylomata acuminata, also during pregnancy.