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Cryosurgery for Benign Oral Lesions

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Cryosurgery is the deliberated destruction of tissue by freezing in a controlled manner. It has been used in the treatment of a wide variety of oral lesions, including benign tumors, viral infections, and selected premalignant and malignant tumors. It is a technique very useful especially for patients to whom other medical procedures are contraindicated. Advantages in the oral cavity include limited time of treatment, low risk of infection, and minimal wound care. This chapter describes the use of cryosurgery in benign oral lesions.

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  1. Second Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Attikon, 44 Nefelis Street, Athens, 11853, Greece

    Panagiota Loumou MD, DDS, PhD

  2. Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical School of Athens, 4 Fokaias str, 14232 Nea Ionia, Athens, 14232, Greece

    Eleni A. Georgakopoulou MD, DDS, MSc

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    Paola Pasquali

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Loumou, P., Georgakopoulou, E.A. (2015). Cryosurgery for Benign Oral Lesions. In: Pasquali, P. (eds) Cryosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43939-5_10

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