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A Review of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound
International Journal of Translational MedicineFor 80 years, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been the subject of interest in medical research. It is a non-invasive procedure that causes the death of cells in a very select area through one of two mechanisms, either heat or cavitation ...
Ben Turner, David Cranston
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High-intensity focused ultrasound in functional neurosurgery
Анналы клинической и экспериментальной неврологии, 2017 Stereotactic functional neurosurgical interventions for basal gangliaare an important method for treating movement, pain, obsessivecompulsive and depressive disorders.
Vladimir M. Tyurnikov, Artyom O. Gushcha
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Nanoplatforms-Enhanced High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Cancer Immunotherapy [PDF]
International Journal of NanomedicineYuan Zhang,1 Yuwei Li,1 Chuanchuan He,2 Xiaojuan Zhang,1 Yimin Huang2 1Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Medicine, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Central Laboratory, Jiaxing Maternity and Child Health Care ...
Zhang Y, Li Y, He C, Zhang X, Huang Y
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Salvage robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy after targeted high-intensity focused ultrasound: a single-center study on feasibility, oncological and functional outcomes [PDF]
Frontiers in OncologyBackground/ObjectivesTargeted High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is an emerging treatment option for localized prostate cancer (PCa), aiming to balance oncological control with functional preservation.
Ludovica Cella +29 more
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Focused ultrasound and prostate cancer [PDF]
Ultrasonography, 2021 Focused ultrasound (FUS) has been utilized for the treatment of localized prostate cancer. Initially, FUS was performed as a whole-gland treatment comparable to radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy.
Sung Kyu Hong, Hakmin Lee
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A Review of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound in Urology [PDF]
Cancers, 2021 This review provides an introduction to high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and reviews its historical and current use in urological surgery. Current and historical literature (1927–2020), including that describing trials and review articles in the medical and ultrasonic literature, has been reviewed, using Pub Med and Cochrane search engines ...
Cranston, D, Leslie, T, Ter Haar, G
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 BackgroundNo reports on Letrozole as a pretreatment before ablation of uterine fibroid with high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), so a retrospective observation study was performed to evaluate the response of different pre-HIFU medication.MethodsWe ...
Wei-Chun Chen +16 more
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Focused Ultrasound, an Emerging Tool for Atherosclerosis Treatment: A Comprehensive Review
Life, 2023 Focused ultrasound (FUS) has emerged as a promising noninvasive therapeutic modality for treating atherosclerotic arterial disease. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), a noninvasive and precise modality that generates high temperatures at specific ...
Cynthia Imtiaz +6 more
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Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy, 2023 Objectives: Uterine fibroids and adenomyosis are common gynecological conditions that often require surgical treatment. Minimally invasive interventions such as ultrasound-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (USgHIFU) are gaining popularity as they ...
Smita Jindal +3 more
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 BackgroundThe effect of tobacco on breast cancer (BC) is controversial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between tobacco and BC.MethodsA search was conducted in PubMed, EBSCO, Web of Science and Cochrane Library databases ...
Yujing He +5 more
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