[Cryotherapy of vulvar precancerous conditions--results of 12 years' treatment].

The recommendations for therapy of the facultative and obligate precancerous diseases of the vulva contain a lot of measurements extending from a local conservative treatment to the vulvectomy designated by a very different share of recurrences. With regard to the sure analgetic and controllable cell destroying effects of the coldness we cryosurgically treated 32 patients suffering from a kraurosis and 3 women with a histological secured Bowen's disease at the Department of Gynecology of the Medical Academy of Erfurt from 1971 to 1982. The present outcome proves this measurement being a very successful method but not always without recurrence. Therefore we consider cryosurgery as a real enrichment in conventional treatment of the precancerous diseases of the vulva but this measure can not be taken for the method of choice.