Cryosurgery is an effective modality for treatment of many benign, pre
malignant, and malignant cutaneous lesions. New indications for benign
lesions, new data, and recent trends towards more aggressive treatmen
t of malignant lesions are mentioned. The differences in management be
tween benign and malignant lesions are addressed. This article discuss
es cryobiology, equipment, advantages of cryosurgery, techniques of tr
eatment, tissue response, re suits, complications, and contraindicatio
ns.