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Cryosurgery

Known as: Cryoablation, Cryoablations, cryosurgery procedure 
The use of extreme cold to damage or destroy a body part, pathway, or function. The procedure is performed using small cryogenic probes during… 
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Cold Therapy

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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Enhancement of Immunologic Tumor Regression by Intratumoral Administration of Dendritic Cells in Combination with Cryoablative Tumor Pretreatment and Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Cell Wall Skeleton…
Purpose: We developed an effective immunotherapy, which could induce antitumor immune responses against shared and unique tumor… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Cryoablation of renal tumours in patients with solitary kidneys
To investigate the use of cryoablation for small renal tumours (≤ 5 cm) in patients with solitary kidneys, as the advantage of… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Alternative energy sources for atrial ablation: judging the new technology.
Review
2002
Review
2002
The technology in use for the surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation.
The purpose of this article is to present and evaluate the various technologies recently developed for the surgical treatment of… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
MR imaging of the kidneys after laparoscopic cryoablation.
OBJECTIVE We describe the MR imaging findings of patients who underwent laparoscopic renal lesion cryoablation. MATERIALS AND… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
The importance of cryoablation of the coronary sinus during the Maze procedure.
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Use of second treatment following definitive local therapy for prostate cancer: data from the caPSURE database.
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Cryosurgical ablation of hepatic tumors.
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Experimental and clinical observations on hepatic cryosurgery for colorectal metastases.
Cryosurgery, using liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees C, was explored for treating colorectal liver metastases in an experimental… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Mechanisms of tissue destruction following cryosurgery.
Destruction of diseased tissue in situ by means of freezing is well established in many branches of surgery. The tissues are… 
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