NOUN
- the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers)
How To Use cryosurgery In A Sentence
- Cryoablation, also called cryotherapy or cryosurgery, is a procedure in which extreme cold is applied to the tumor using a cryoprobe, a hollow needle-like device filled with argon gas. Good news for cancer patients, cryoablation can treat kidney cancer.
- She went over the list of treatment options: “cryosurgery, or freezing of the pre-cancerous cells; laser surgery to burn off whatever was left over.” This Family of Mine
- Then, cryosurgery is performed in the same visit to destroy the abnormal cells. Craig and Marc Kielburger: How Screening Saves Lives
- These techniques include cryosurgery, chemoembolization, radiofrequency ablation, alcohol injections and hepatic artery infusion.
- Cryotherapy is also used as a method of treating localized areas of some cancers (called cryosurgery), such as prostate cancer and to treat abnormal skin cells by dermatologists. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- The trial combines a freezing technology called cryosurgery with therapy in which white blood cells known as dendritic cells are multiplied more than 1 millionfold and used to activate the body's defenses, fighting the cancer wherever it has spread. Ventura County Star Stories
- Cryosurgery or curettage and cautery is not recommended for recurrent tumours.
- Most benign skin lesions can be treated successfully with any of several treatment modalities (excision, cryosurgery, electrodesiccation curettage).
- In one small study, cryosurgery was associated with skin depigmentation, but was favored because repeat applications were unnecessary.
- Commonly used treatments include excisional surgery, Mohs' surgery, radiation therapy, cryosurgery, curettage and electrodesiccation.
