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  2. Warts can be stubborn to treat. Here's how to get rid of them.

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    The most common in-office treatment for warts is cryotherapy, Schultz explains. During this procedure, the wart is sprayed with liquid nitrogen, causing a local destruction of the skin tissue ...

  3. Cryosurgery - Wikipedia

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    Cryosurgery (with cryo from the Ancient Greek κρύο ' icy cold ') is the use of extreme cold in surgery to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue; [1] thus, it is the surgical application of cryoablation. Cryosurgery has been historically used to treat a number of diseases and disorders, especially a variety of benign and malignant skin ...

  4. Wart - Wikipedia

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    There are many treatments and procedures associated with wart removal. [21] A review of various skin wart treatments concluded that topical treatments containing salicylic acid were more effective than placebo. [22] Cryotherapy appears to be as effective as salicylic acid, but there have been fewer trials. [22]

  5. Plantar wart - Wikipedia

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    A 12-week daily treatment with salicylic acid has been shown to lead to a complete clearance of warts in 10–15% of the cases. [16] Formic acid, topical, is a common treatment for plantar warts, which works by being applied over a period of time, causing the body to reject the wart. [17]

  6. ICD-10 Procedure Coding System - Wikipedia

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    The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a US system of medical classification used for procedural coding.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure classification system to replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.

  7. ICD-10 - Wikipedia

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    ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]

  8. Angiofibroma - Wikipedia

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    Excision, Dermabrasion, Using lasers, electrical, and radiofrequency devices, Cryotherapy, Topical podophyllotoxin, Topical rapamycin, and Topical beta-blockers. [ 1 ] Angiofibroma ( AGF ) is a descriptive term for a wide range of benign skin or mucous membrane (i.e. the outer membrane lining body cavities such as the mouth and nose) lesions in ...

  9. Cryoablation - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Irving S. Cooper, in 1913, progressed the field of cryotherapy by designing a liquid nitrogen probe capable of achieving temperatures of -196 °C, and utilizing it to treat of Parkinson's disease and previously inoperable cancer. Cooper's cryoprobe advanced the practice of cryotherapy, which led to growing interest and practice of cryotherapy.