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Cervix treatment – cryosurgery

Alternative Names

Cervix surgery; Cryosurgery – female

Definition of Cervix treatment – cryosurgery

Cervix cryosurgery is a surgical treatment to freeze and destroy abnormal tissue in the .

Review

Susan Storck, MD, FACOG, Chief, Eastside Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Redmond, Washington; Clinical Teaching Faulty, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc. – 2/21/2010

Female reproductive anatomy
Cervical cryosurgery

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