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Ablation

Known as: Ablation Therapy, Local Ablation Therapy, Local Ablative Therapy 
In medicine, the removal or destruction of a body part or tissue or its function. Ablation may be performed by surgery, hormones, drugs… 
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Review
2011
Review
2011
Principles of and advances in percutaneous ablation.
Image-guided tumor ablation with both thermal and nonthermal sources has received substantial attention for the treatment of many… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Circumferential pulmonary-vein ablation for chronic atrial fibrillation.
BACKGROUND We conducted a randomized, controlled trial of circumferential pulmonary-vein ablation for the treatment of chronic… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Ablation of hippocampal neurogenesis impairs contextual fear conditioning and synaptic plasticity in the dentate gyrus
Although hippocampal neurogenesis has been described in many adult mammals, the functional impact of this process on physiology… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Catheter ablation treatment in patients with drug-refractory atrial fibrillation: a prospective, multi-centre, randomized, controlled study (Catheter Ablation For The Cure Of Atrial Fibrillation…
AIMS We conducted a multi-centre, prospective, controlled, randomized trial to investigate the adjunctive role of ablation… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Image-guided tumor ablation: standardization of terminology and reporting criteria.
The field of interventional oncology with use of image-guided tumor ablation requires standardization of terminology and… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Technique and Results of Linear Ablation at the Mitral Isthmus
Background—This prospective clinical study evaluates the feasibility and efficacy of combined linear mitral isthmus ablation and… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Tumor ablation with radio-frequency energy.
Tumor ablation by using radio-frequency energy has begun to receive increased attention as an effective minimally invasive… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Selective ablation of immature blood vessels in established human tumors follows vascular endothelial growth factor withdrawal.
Features that distinguish tumor vasculatures from normal blood vessels are sought to enable the destruction of preformed tumor… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Optical ablation by high-power short-pulse lasers
Laser-induced damage threshold measurements were performed on homogeneous and multilayer dielectrics and gold-coated optics at… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Hyperfiltration in remnant nephrons: a potentially adverse response to renal ablation.
Micropuncture studies were performed in three groups of male Munich-Wistar rats 1 wk after surgery: group I, eight control rats… 
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