Abstract
Many of the effects of the freezing methods employed in clinical practice produce inflammatory changes that are probably important for successful treatment; therefore morbidity, side effects and complications cannot always be treated as separate entities in cryosurgery, as is seen with many of the changes described below. Specific complications depend largely on the regime employed and on the site, pathology and size of the lesion to be treated.
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Dawber, R.P.R. (1993). Cryosurgery. In: Harahap, M. (eds) Complications of Dermatologic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77415-7_4
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