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. 1978 Feb;4(2):175-7.
doi: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.1978.tb00404.x.

Cryotherapy of basal-cell carcinoma by a simple method of standardized freeze-thaw cycles

D I McLean, H A Haynes, P L McCarthy, H P Baden

Cryotherapy of basal-cell carcinoma by a simple method of standardized freeze-thaw cycles

D I McLean et al. J Dermatol Surg Oncol. 1978 Feb.

Abstract

One hundred seventy-seven basal-cell carcinomas treated by cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen according to a standard protocol had a recurrence rate of 2.3% in a mean of 4.8 years of follow-up. The cryotherapeutic method used freeze-thaw times rather than temperatures measured by thermocouples as indices of adequacy of freeze.

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