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Minimally invasive cryosurgery: technical advances.

Author(s) : BAUST J., GAGE A. A., MA H., ZHANG C. M.

Type of article: Article

Summary

The technological advances which have caused renewed interest in cryosurgery are the development of intraoperative ultrasound to monitor the therapeutic process and the development of new cryosurgical equipment designed to use supercooled liquid nitrogen. Clinical applications which have become common in the past 4 years include the treatment of prostatic cancer and liver tumors. The cases selected for cryosurgery are generally those for which no conventional treatment is possible. However, especially in prostatic cancer, the operative morbidity is so low and the results of therapy are sufficiently good in the short term to merit conideration of use in earlier stages of the disease. Diverse tumors in other sites, such as the brain, bronchus, bone, pancreas, kidney, and uterus have also been treated in small numbers by cryosurgery. Judging from this experience, further expansion in the use of cryosurgical techniques seems certain.

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  • Original title: Minimally invasive cryosurgery: technical advances.
  • Record ID : 1998-1969
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Cryobiology - vol. 34 - n. 4
  • Publication date: 1997/06

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