No abstract available.
Cryotherapy* ; Hamartoma*

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Cryotherapy* ; Nevus*

No abstract available.
Cryotherapy* ; Stomatitis*

No abstract available.
Cryotherapy* ; Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous* ; Metronidazole*

No abstract available.
Cryotherapy* ; Hot Temperature* ; Humans

No abstract available.
Cryotherapy* ; Pemphigus, Benign Familial*

No abstract available.
Cryotherapy ; Foot ; Warts

Despite the proven benefit of cryotherapy in the management of threshold retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), it was shown leading to ocular adverse effects. A male infant was born at 28 week of gestation with a birth weight of 1200 g. Serial examinations revealed worsening ROP in both eyes until he reached a high risk pre-threshold ROP in his right eye and threshold ROP in his left eye. Cryotherapy was performed for the threshold ROP in the left eye while the right eye was subjected to further observation. Subsequently, ROP in both eyes regressed without cicatrisation. The patient was followedup over 8 years and refractions showed that the treated eye developed steadily increasing myopia while the untreated eye remained emmetropic. This case demonstrated the detrimental effect of cryotherapy to the treated eye leading to the progressive myopia as the child grew.
Retinopathy of Prematurity ; Cryotherapy

Although the reports of the use of crotherapy in the control of the proliferative phase of retinopathy of prematurity varied in their conclusions regarding the merits and limitations of this therapy, cryotherapy has been consedered to be an effective treatment for retinopathy stage 3. The accepted method of therapy includes ablation of the whole avascular retina from the ridge to the ora serrata. This is achieved by 2 to 3 rows of cryoapplications with use of cryotherapy probe for ROP. Nissenkorn et al presented their new method of cryotherapy in which only one row of cryoapplications was applied in the avascular retina anterior to the fibrovascular ridge. So, we performed cryotherapy using Nessenkorn's new method on 7 babies and the anatomical results are reviewed. Complete regression of active retinopathy was achieved in all of the eyes treated.
Cryosurgery* ; Cryotherapy ; Retina ; Retinopathy of Prematurity

BACKGROUND: Cryotherapy of warts with liquid nitrogen is the most widely used method of treatment by dermatologist , but little is known about its ideal method. OBJECTIVE: This study is to investigate the ideal methods in cryotherapy of warts. METHODS: 127 cases of viral warts were studied. These warts consisted of three groups of verruca vulgaris, palmoplantar wart, and periungual wart. 104 cases were treated with a Cry-Ac(R) spray, 23 cases with a cotton wool bud. Using either technique, liquid nitrogen was applied until ice-ball formation had spread from the center to include a margin of 2-4 mm around each wart. Treatment was done at 2-week or 3-weekly intervals and with two to six freeze thaw cycles. The endpoint of the study was complete clearance of all warts. RESULT: Each cure rate for treatment interval is 70.0% for 2-weekly treatment, and 71.6% for 3-weekly treatment. The rate of pain and blister with a shorter interval is higher. Each cure rate for freeze thaw cycles is 73.7% for 2 cycles, 70.4% for over 3 cycles. The morbidity for blister is higher in over 3 cycles than 2 cycles. Cure rates were 70.2% in the spray and 73.9% in the cotton wool bud. CONCLUSION: This study shows no significant benefit of the trial beyond 2 freeze-thaw cycles. We suggest that 3-weekly treatment is the optimal treatment and cryotherapy is equally effective when treated with a spray or a cotton wool bud.
Blister ; Cryotherapy* ; Nitrogen ; Warts* ; Wool