CryoPen Skin Growth Removal

Skin tags are small, soft, skin-coloured growths that hang off the skin and look a bit like warts on stalks. Skin tags are made of loose collagen fibres and blood vessels surrounded by skin. Skin tags are very common and mostly occur around the face, neck, armpits, groin and abdomen.

In the young skin tags are often caused by jewelry or clothing rubbing in the area. Pregnant women may also be more likely to develop skin tags as a result of changes in their hormone levels. As you age skin tags are more common in people who are obese or have type 2 diabetes.

Common warts are grainy skin growths that are rough to touch and most often occur on your fingers or hands. Sometime they feature a pattern of tiny black dots, which are small clotted blood vessels.

Flat warts are smooth, flat-topped, flesh- or brownish-yellow-coloured bumps the size of a pinhead. They’re commonly found on the face, back of the hands, or legs, and tend to appear in large numbers. Flat warts are also called juvenile warts because they’re most commonly found in children and young adults.

Plantar warts are growths that usually appear on your heels or other weight-bearing areas of your feet. This pressure may also cause plantar warts to grow inward beneath a hard, thick layer of skin.

Common, flat and plantar warts are caused by a virus and can be transmitted by touch, but are non-cancerous.

Verrucas are on the feet have tiny black dots under the hard skin and can be spread to other people from contaminated surfaces or through close skin contact.

Verruca treatments require preparation which involves soaking the feet and then gently filing the top of the softened verruca afterwards - this must done everyday for a week prior to the CryoPen treatment.

A cherry angioma is often bright red, circular or oval in shape, and small (usually about pin head). Some cherry angiomas appear smooth and even with your skin, while others appear slightly raised. They most often grow on the torso, arms, legs, and shoulders and are usually found on people aged 30 and older. They’re also known as Senile Angiomas or Campbell de Morgan spots.

Seborrhoeic keratoses (also called seborrhoeic warts) can often appear in those over 40 - starting as a small flat lesion they become more raised and larger as the years go by. They range in colour from pale pink to dark brown with a rough surface that gives the impression they are stuck onto your skin's surface - with some looking similar to pigmented skin tags. Typically they occur on the trunk, but are also common on the head and neck. Once present, they usually stay, and new ones often appear over the years.

Actinic keratoses (also called solar keratoses) are dry scaly patches of skin that have been damaged by the sun. They can feel dry, rough and scaly and are usually 1 to 2 cm in size ranging in colour from pink to red to brown. The patches usually appear on areas of your body that are often exposed to the sun, such as your face, hands and arms, ears, scalp and legs.

Cryosurgery should not be used in the following situations:

• Treating Milia
• Uncertain diagnoses or malignant skin lesions
• In the distal extremities (think fingers and toes) of people with the following conditions
  • Raynaud’s Syndrome
  • Peripheral vascular disease
  • Peripheral neuropathy
• Periungual lesions (underneath the nail)
• Patients diagnosed with cardiac disease
• Patients diagnosed with skin cancer
• Open wounds present in the treatment area

Patients new to the treatment must have a consultation which costs £35.

We recommend booking a consultation and treatment for your first appointment where the nurse can confirm the treatment is appropriate and perform the first treatment immediately afterwards. Then if further treatments are required you can book without a consultation.