Background and aim: Pyogenic granuloma is a small, red, benign vascular tumor usually occuring after penetrating injury in skin. Different therapies such as laser, surgery and electro surgery have been offered for its treatment. Each of these therapies has advantages and disadvantages. In this study, we evaluated the therapeutic effects of cryotherapy and electrocautery on pyogenic granul...

Abstract Cryotherapy is a minimally invasive treatment. With increasing rate of breast cancer detection, ablation therapy has become an alternative approach for the treatment this pathology due to its advantages invasive, fewer complications, good efficacy, and repeatability. Preclinical clinical studies cryotherapy published through December 2022 were identified literature search using PubMed,...

Background: There are different treatment modalities for common warts and all of them have side effects. Niosomal drug delivery systems have increased efficacy by enhanced transport of therapeutic agents through stratum corneum with decreased side effects. In this study, we assessed the efficacy of combined 2% niosomal zinc sulfate cream plus cryotherapy compared with combinati...

Purpose Cryotherapy is an option for the primary treatment of localized prostate cancer, along with radical prostatectomy, external beam radiation therapy, and brachytherapy. Although it is known that local recurrence can occur in >20% of patients treated with primary cryotherapy, unfortunately there is a paucity of data on later salvage treatments. The use of external beam radiation therapy is...

background: mucositis is an important adverse effect of cancer treatment. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ice cubes on oral mucositis following head and neck radiotherapy. materials and methods: a randomized controlled trial was conducted on 40 head and neck cancer patients who underwent radiotherapy. the patients were randomly divided into two experimental and control gr...

PURPOSE To evaluate outcomes of lid margin split with cryotherapy to the anterior lid lamella for treating trichiasis. METHODS This prospective study included 20 eyelids of ten patients with trichiasis who were treated with lid margin split and cryotherapy. All patients were followed up for 6 months. RESULTS Eighteen eyelids (90%) were successfully treated, and two eyelids (10%) developed r...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and cryotherapy are physical therapy resources individually used, since there is the possibility of interaction between TENS and cryotherapy if they are associated. This study aimed at evaluating the analgesic effectiveness of the association or not of TENS and cryotherapy to relieve chronic low back pain. METHOD: Cli...

BACKGROUND Plantar warts (verrucae) are extremely common. Although many will spontaneously disappear without treatment, treatment may be sought for a variety of reasons such as discomfort. There are a number of different treatments for cutaneous warts, with salicylic acid and cryotherapy using liquid nitrogen being two of the most common forms of treatment. To date, no full economic evaluation ...

statement of problem: physiologic pigmentation of oral mucosa is considered as a prevalent entity among black people and those having relatively dark skin. gingival physiologic pigmentation may cause problems for some patients specially ladies as far as esthetics is concerned. to overcome the issue, the surgery might be suggested which can cause some problems due to its side effects. cryotherap...

Fig 1. Monsel tattoo at baseline before treatment (A), after 2 cryotherapy sessions (B), and 1 month after the fourth cryotherapy session (C). INTRODUCTION Monsel solution is a commonly used hemostatic agent comprised of ferric subsulfate. Rarely, Monsel solution causes a tattoo reaction secondary to iron particle deposition in the dermis. We present a case of Monsel solution tattoo successfull...