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Title Modern cryosurgery for cancer / editors, Kecheng Xu, Nikolai N. Korpan, Lizhi Niu.

Imprint Singapore : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 903 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. History of cryosurgery -- pt. 2. Basics of cryosurgery -- pt. 3. Cryosurgery for thoracic tumors -- pt. 4. Cryosurgery for abdominal tumors -- pt. 5. Cryosurgery for pelvic tumors -- pt. 6. Cryosurgery for head and neck tumors -- pt. 7. Cryosurgery for bone and soft tissue tumors -- pt. 8. Cryosurgery for external tumors.
Summary Cryosurgery is a surgical technique that employs freezing to destroy undesirable tissue. From as early as 3500 BC, there is evidence for the use of cold in medicine for the treatment of infected wounds of the chest, fracture of the skull and various injuries. However, the history of "modern" cryosurgery is relatively short and is closely intertwined with the development in low temperature physics, engineering, and instrumentation during the last century. From the early 21st century, advanced helium-based cryosurgery has been applied worldwide. More than ten thousand patients with malignant and benign tumors have received cryosurgery. It is specially noted that in most cases cryosurgery, as a mini-invasive ablation technique, was performed with percutaneous approach under guidance of CT or ultrasound. Cryosurgery is now one of the more popular techniques in China, with nearly 6000 cases of tumors receiving cryosurgery in the author's institution alone. This book summarizes the experimental and clinical experience and practice of cryosurgery, and describes the basics of cryosurgery and its use in the treatment of various tumors.
Subject Cryosurgery.
Cancer -- Treatment.
Neoplasms -- surgery
Cryosurgery -- methods
Cryosurgery
Cryochirurgie.
Cancer -- Traitement.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
MEDICAL -- Oncology.
Cancer -- Treatment
Cryosurgery
Added Author Xu, Kecheng.
Korpan, Nikolai N.
Niu, Lizhi.
Other Form: Print version: Xu, Kecheng. Modern Cryosurgery for Cancer. Singapore : World Scientific, ©2012 9789814329651
ISBN 9789814329668 (electronic bk.)
9814329665 (electronic bk.)
9814329657
9789814329651
Standard No. AU@ 000055813092
DEBBG BV043055868
DEBSZ 446423165
AU@ 000073139064

 
    
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