Cryotherapy is the use of liquid nitrogen to freeze & destroy tissues for a medical benefit.

Uses of cryotherapy at Quakers Hill Veterinary Hospital include:

• distichiae (extra hairs along eyelid margins)
• denuding hairs in the medial canthi causing epiphora (tears down face)
• adjunct or primary treatment for eyelid tumours (histiocytomas, mast cell tumour, melanomna)
• ocular tumour (melanoma, haemangiosarcoma)
• glaucoma – cryocycloablation
• nasal squamous cell carcinoma in cats
• perianal adenomas
• adjunct to surgery for oral epuli
• arrest development of warts