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    Cryosurgery (with cryo from the Ancient Greek κρύο 'icy cold') is the use of extreme cold in surgery to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue; thus, it...
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  • refers to the surgical treatment, specifically known as cryosurgery or cryoablation. Cryosurgery is the application of extremely low temperatures to destroy...
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    benefits as compared with no treatment or different kinds of treatment. Cryosurgery, using extreme cold to remove dead tissue, may speed up the healing process...
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    recommended. Other options include electrodesiccation and curettage, cryosurgery, topical chemotherapy, photodynamic therapy, laser surgery or the use...
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    renal cryoablation are the most common. Although sometimes applied in cryosurgery through laparoscopic or open surgical approaches, most often cryoablation...
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  • burned, with at least seven male children being reassigned as female. Cryosurgery Diathermy Singe "Dictionary definition, retrieved: 2009-03-07". Soballe...
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    neutrophil count decreased by 1.42×109 L−1." Surgical treatments include cryosurgery, in which liquid nitrogen is used to freeze and destroy lesions, as well...
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    scissors under local anesthesia, is highly effective. Liquid nitrogen cryosurgery is usually performed in an office visit, at weekly intervals. It is effective...
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    practitioner, or a similarly trained professional who may use cauterization, cryosurgery, excision, laser, or surgical ligation to remove the acrochorda. Varied...
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    neuroablation (also known as cryoinjection therapy, cryoneurolysis, cryosurgery or cryoablation) is a lesser-known alternative to neurectomy surgery...
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    of vaginal erosion, and colposcopic examination. It is preferred in cryosurgery because it protects the anterior and posterior vaginal wall. The advantage...
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    Generally, lesions can be treated with electrodesiccation and curettage, or cryosurgery. When correctly performed, removal of seborrheic keratoses will not cause...
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    (2016-06-23). "GPU-Based Simulation of Ultrasound Imaging Artifacts for Cryosurgery Training". Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment. 16 (1): 5–14. doi:10...
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    silicone gel sheeting, intra-lesional triamcinolone acetonide (TAC), cryosurgery (freezing), radiation, laser therapy (pulsed dye laser), interferon (IFN)...
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    "Cutaneous cryosurgery". American Family Physician. 86 (12): 1118–24. PMID 23316984. Lubritz RR, Smolewski SA (November 1982). "Cryosurgery cure rate of...
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    can often be treated with local measures such as radiation therapy or cryosurgery. Weak evidence suggests that antiretroviral therapy in combination with...
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    actinic cheilitis. Both cryosurgery and electrosurgery are effective choices for small areas of actinic cheilitis. Cryosurgery is accomplished by applying...
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    used to study the generation of cell lines or for stem-cell therapy. Cryosurgery The branch of surgery applying cryogenic temperatures to destroy and...
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  • International Cryosurgery Center for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment". www.fudacancerhospital.org. Retrieved 2016-05-12. "International Society of Cryosurgery, 16th...
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    Liver spots can also be frozen off with liquid nitrogen; that is, via cryosurgery. Freckle Lentigo List of cutaneous conditions James, William D.; Berger...
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  • radiation therapy, proton therapy, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), cryosurgery, hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, or some combination. Treatments also...
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    is hard to treat and therapies include steroids, dupilumab, vitamins, cryosurgery, thalidomide, and UVB light[citation needed]. In the event that staphylococcus...
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  • physician and pioneer of cryotherapy. Regarded as “the father of modern cryosurgery”, Arnott was the first to utilize extreme cold locally for the destruction...
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  • ultrasound-guided procedures for treating cancer using cryosurgery. Gary Onik is the inventor of ultrasound-guided cryosurgery procedures for the prostate and for the...
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    dermabrasion, salabrasion (scrubbing the skin with salt), reduction techniques, cryosurgery and excision—which is sometimes still used along with skin grafts for...
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    (born 1966) is a Chinese surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive cryosurgery for cancers. In 1996, he graduated from the Fourth Military Medical University...
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    tissue instead of a scalpel, scissors or similar sharp-edged instruments. Cryosurgery uses low-temperature cryoablation to freeze and destroy a target tissue...
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    is a seborrheic keratosis, then shave excision, electrodesiccation or cryosurgery may be performed, usually leaving very little if any scarring. If the...
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    Medical College. He is honorary Chairman of the International Society of Cryosurgery (ISC). He was awarded the "Bethune Medal" in 2012 for his contributions...
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    now recommended as a second-line therapy. Liquid nitrogen and similar cryosurgery methods are common surgical treatments, which act by freezing the external...
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