The Survey of Usage and Effects of Cryotherapy on the Skin Lesions in Department of Dermatology Sina Hospital Hamadan City West of Iran Between 1995-1997
Background: Cryotherapy is the effective treatment which uses for treatment of many benign and premalignant and malignant skin lesions. Objective: The aim of this survey was the evaluation of effect of cryotherapy on the benign skin diseases w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Hamadan University of Medical Sciences
1999-12-01
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| Series: | پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا |
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| Online Access: | http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-996-en.html |
| Summary: | Background: Cryotherapy is the effective treatment which uses for
treatment of many benign and premalignant and malignant skin lesions.
Objective: The aim of this survey was the evaluation of effect of
cryotherapy on the benign skin diseases which cryotherapy had used for
patients treatment in the Department of dermatology Sina Hospital.
Methods: This research was a retrospective cross - sectional study that
patients information got out of patients file who were treated by
cryotherapy in the Department of dermatology Sina Hospital between 1995
-1997. The collected information analyzed by software EPI6.
Results: All of the treated skin diseases by cryotherapy in this center were
benign. The most common was wart, and other lesions were keloid, solar
lentigo and alopecia areata, other skin diseases formed few percent of
patients. About 86% of patients remitted by cryotherapy which the most
remission percent related to wart. We did not observe any permanent
complication but transient complications were formation of bulla, edema
and hyperpigmentation.
Conclusion: This study showed that cryotherapy is effective and safe
method of therapy for many of skin diseases especially for wart, solar
lentigo, and keloid. For better results from cryotherapy we must point to
many factors such as period of cryotherapy , depth of lesions and location
of lesion. |
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| ISSN: | 2588-722X 2588-7238 |