CRYOSURGERY UPDATED

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.