BACKGROUND Cryosurgery was first used to treat prostate cancer in the early 1970s but it was not until 1993, when the results from percutaneous ultrasound-guided cryosurgery were published, that the potential advantages of this treatment became apparent. Changes in equipment and techniques have improved the results of cryosurgery, in both tumor control and lower morbidity. METHODS The author ...

HIGHLIGHTS • AUA Practice Guidelines Committee and Board of Directors consensus opinion is Primary cryosurgery is an option for clinically organ-confined prostate cancer of any grade with a negative metastatic evaluation Salvage cryosurgery can be considered as a treatment option for men who failed radiation therapy • HRQL – Cryosurgery (compared to brachytherapy) has superior AUA symptom score...

−− A numerical model was developed to study heat transfer process during freezing of biological tumors. Two different cryosurgical systems, Endocare cryoprobe and novel combined cryosurgery and hyperthermia system, were investigated using the multidimensional, finite element method (FED) developed in Ansys (V7.0) by us recently. The tissues were modeled as nonideal materials, the thermophysical...

INTRODUCTION Minimally invasive, non-surgical, office-based modalities are a welcome alternative to surgery for basal cell carcinoma(BCC). This study evaluates the treatment of BCC with immunocryosurgery (cryosurgery during topical imiquimod) in a dermatology office setting. METHODS Response of BCC to immunocryosurgery (daily imiquimod for 5 weeks and a liquid N2 cryosurgery session at the en...

STUDY OBJECTIVES More than 80% of patients with lung cancer are unsuitable for curative surgical treatment. Palliative relief of symptoms, often caused by airway obstruction, is very important. Endobronchial cryosurgery is used for destruction of intraluminal tumors. This study analyzes the effects of cryosurgery on patients with obstructive endobronchial carcinoma. DESIGN Retrospective analy...

The hypothesized advantages of cryosurgery include improved local control and benefits common to any minimally invasive procedure (e.g., preserving normal organ tissue, decreasing morbidity, decreasing length of hospitalization). Potential complications of cryosurgery include those caused by hypothermic damage to normal tissue adjacent to the tumor, structural damage along the probe track, and ...

Introduction. Tenosynovial giant cell tumors (TGCT) emerge from the synovium and can behave aggressively. Surgical resection is the standard treatment. However, up to half of the patients with diffuse type show recurrences. Several additional treatments have been applied to reduce recurrences; none of these treatments was proven to be superior to surgical resection solely. This article describe...

Several methods of treatment for plunging ranulas have been described in the literature, such as: surgical treatment including the excision of the sublingual gland followed by transoral drainage of the pluging ranula, needle aspiration, excision of the ranula, cryosurgery and CO(2) laser excision. Marsupialization and micro-marsupialisation can be also recommended primarily to treat oral ranula...