Cryosurgery for hemorrhoids

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Abstract
The main disadvantage of cryosurgery is the amount of postoperative pain suffered by many of the patients, which is much greater than had been anticipated and which unfortunately incapacitates most patients for work for several days or a week after the treatment. Cryosurgery can be applied on an outpatient basis, admittedly at the price of a fair amount of discomfort and it can provide successful destruction of hemorrhoids in roughly 70% of the patients who would otherwise be candidates for hemorrhoidectomy. Some 30% of the patients who do not secure satisfactory results may be helped by repeat cryosurgery, but the discomfort associated with the 1st treatment has tended to militate against a repetition of this form of therapy.