It is great advantage for the patients because cryodestruction is a painless and bloodless method in most cases. Within the time period 1976 - 1997, a total of 1258 cryosurgical operations in proctology were performed in our clinic. 423 of these were performed for anal end rectal malignant tumors. During the 22-year time period, we have not met with any serious preoperative or postoperative complications that would make a repeated surgery necessary. The merits and disadvantages of cryodestruction are weighed in the light of our experience.
Illustrative case reports and statistics of performed operations are given.
We do not perform cryosurgery unless we can reasonably expect that the treatment will improve the local finding and will make that what remains of the patient's life time more tolerable.