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Cryohemorrhoidectomy: Indications and complications

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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Cryosurgery is well accepted by patients requiring hemorrhoidal surgery. Internal hemorrhoids are easily treated by cryosurgery. Prolapse, small anal tags, and combined hemorrhoidal disease may be treated by cryosurgery. Pruritus ani responds poorly to cryosurgery. Thrombosed and edematous hemorrhoids should be treated by methods other than cryosurgery. Large, thick skin tags and large prolapsing hemorrhoids should be trated by excisional surgery.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Georgetown University, 916-19th Street, N.W., 20006, Washington, D.C.

    John J. O'Connor M.D.

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Read at the meeting of the Piedmont Proctologic Society, Charleston, South Carolina, March 15, 1975.

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O'Connor, J.J. Cryohemorrhoidectomy: Indications and complications. Dis Colon Rectum 19, 41–43 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02590849

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