[Treatment efficacy in skin basaliomas]. / K voprosu ob éffektivnosti lecheniia bazaliom kozhi.

The authors compare the frequencies of recurrences after various methods of basalioma treatment on the basis of the literature data and their own findings with the patients subjected to skin cryodestruction for this condition in 1983-1988. The frequency of recurrences was found to be 2-4 percent and virtually unrelated to the treatment modality employed. Therefore in choosing the treatment strategy, the physician should consider other features of the therapeutic methods.

[Economic effect of treating skin basaliomas using a cryodestruction method]. / Ekonomicheskii éffekt lecheniia bazaliom kozhi metodom kriodestruktsii.

The results of cryodestruction treatment of basaliomas over 1983-1987 are analyzed. The authors compare the cost of cryodestruction and of the routine short-focus x-ray therapy; they come to the conclusion on the high therapeutic and economic efficacy of cryodestruction treatment of basaliomas of the skin.