Cryotherapy, also known as freezing, is a treatment method based on the principle of destruction.
Cryotherapy, known as wart freezing, uses liquid carbon dioxide at -79 degrees, but liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees is often used.
Treatment results. It is especially successful in genital warts.
Cryo - a slight swelling - redness or blistering in the performed area (as in burns) after surgery are normal results of cryo - surgery and generally do not cause any discomfort to the patients. Pain rarely occurs and dressing the wound is fairly easy and usually consists of applying a healing and protective antibiotic cream. There is no harm in contacting the post-cryo-surgical wound with clean running water (bathing is allowed). Patients can often return to work, school or social life on the same or next day. Wounds usually dry out and crust over within 1 - 4 weeks.
It is preferred in all types of warts, especially in children, as it is applied quickly and without the use of needles.
Other Skin Diseases Where Cryotherapy is Applied.
Dermatological cryo-surgery is used in the treatment of many lesions that develop on or within the surface of the skin and need to be removed from the skin. These; They can be listed as warts, actinic keratosis, which is a disease that occurs on the skin exposed to sunlight with age, seborrheic keratosis, which is a benign tumor that occurs in the body and head area in older ages, molloscum and skin cancers, which are frequently used and contagious in children and adults.
How is it applied?
Cryo - surgery; It is done by applying liquid nitrogen gas to the skin formation that is desired to be destroyed, using special devices. Liquid nitrogen gas at -196 C0 contacting the tissue will freeze the tissue. This freezing process is short-term (10 - 60 seconds); At the end of this period, the tissue will return to its normal temperature. During this short-term and sudden freezing-thawing process, the cells in the targeted tissue will be destroyed and die. These dead and abnormal cells, which can no longer function, will be removed from the tissue during the healing process and are replaced by fresh tissues.
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