Glossary Cryotherapy (freezing treatment) A treatment in which a lesion is frozen with liquid nitrogen; the lesion crusts over and falls off within days. For raised scars and keloids, it is one of the options listed together with corticosteroid injection into the scar, certain lasers and surgery.
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