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ESTRADA PEREIRA, Gladys Aída; MARQUEZ FILIU, Maricel; LINARES TARRADELL, Encarnación de los Ángeles  e  PADILLA GOMEZ, Ernesto Rubén. Cryosurgical treatment in patients with oral squamous-cell carcinoma. MEDISAN [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.3, pp. 469-476. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in 50 patients of both sexes with oral squamous-cell carcinoma, treated at the stomatology department of the Specialties Polyclinic of "Saturnino Lora Torres" Provincial Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from September 2009 to September 2012, in order to evaluate the therapeutic results of cryosurgery in treating this disease. Cryosurgical technique was applied in the exeresis of damaged tissues with sudden repeated freezing and spontaneous slow thawing, thus achieving an excellent healing of tissues in the possible shortest time. It was demonstrated that cryosurgery was simple, effective and easy to apply, and nontraumatic to the mucosa without risk or complication and safe for oral tissues; therefore, it prevented residual scarring.

Palavras-chave : cryosurgery; cryotherapy oral; squamous-cell carcinoma; tissue reepithelization; secondary health care.