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The use of low temperatures in medical therapy or the removal of heat from a body part, aiming to decrease cellular metabolism and inflammation and to promote vasoconstriction.
Examples of cryotherapy in a Sentence
Cryotherapy Cryotherapy (also called cryosurgery) is a way of killing cancer cells by freezing them.
Cryotherapy involves the use of intense cold to destroy cancer cells and can result in harmless, temporary swelling of the external eye and eyelids that can last for up to five days.
Expert opinion advises that a few lesions can usually be treated by cryotherapy, especially in older children, without anesthesia.
Commonly employed treatment options include cryotherapy (freezing of the tumor) and excision.
Miscellaneous I have had cryotherapy for a mark on my face.
Those who agreed were randomized to receive cryotherapy at 1, 2 or 3 weeks.
The cuff is anatomically designed to completely fit the elbow providing maximum cryotherapy.
Toxicities included transient periorbital edema in four eyes and optic atrophy in one eye that also received laser photocoagulation and cryotherapy.
After cryotherapy (freezing treatment ), the skin immediately becomes red and a little puffy.
Thermoelectric materials can also be used in cryotherapy, pacemakers, and as thermocouple sensors.
Cryotherapy is a treatment often used in conjunction with radiation therapy but can also be used alone on small tumors located on the front part of the retina.
If the tumor is small enough, other therapies such as external beam radiation therapy, photocoagulation, cryotherapy, thermotherapy, chemotherapy, and brachytherapy may be considered.
Smaller, more localized tumors can sometimes be treated by local therapies such as cryotherapy, photocoagulation therapy, thermotherapy or brachytherapy.
Cryotherapy is used in the treatment skin lesions, Parkinson's disease, some cancers, retinal detachment, and cataracts.
Cryotherapy is relatively inexpensive, does not require anesthesia, and usually does not result in scarring.
If detected early, cryotherapy is usually enough.
They can be removed by cryotherapy (freezing), laser or electrocauterization (burning), or surgical excision (cutting).
Common methods to reduce genital warts include application of a topical cream called imiquimod (Aldara), cryotherapy (freezing of the wart), elecrosurgery (applying an electrical current to the wart), and surgical removal.
The technical name is cryotherapy, and it involves the use of liquid nitrogen.
It will be possible in the future to arrange additional training for those GPs who wish to provide cryotherapy within their own practice.