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Cryotherapy using CryoPen/CryoProbe is a simple and practical therapy for SL considering
the following instructions:
1- Select your candidate: A typical candidate for treatment has multiple, brown, well defined,
small and homogenous color lesions with no history of significant post-inflammatory
hyperpigmentation.
2- Perform a spot test by treating one lesion, and evaluate the result in three weeks.
3- Apply sunscreen and use whitening cream for darker skin types for 3 weeks before
and after treatment.
Further side-effects
• Edemas
• Bleeding
• Pain and syncope
• Insufflation of subcutaneous tissue
• Retraction caused by freezing next to orifices
• Cartilage defect during treatment of the nose or the ear
• Infection
• Conjunctival ectopy due to treatments of the eyelid
• Milia
• Depressed or atrophic scars
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