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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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Scientific Reports, 2022 High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been reported to be a minimally invasive effective method for the treatment of secondary hypersplenism. However, neither the short-term efficacy nor the indications and/or contraindications have been described
Xiumei Zhang +6 more
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Numerical Simulation of the Effect of Temperature- dependent Acoustic and Thermal Parameters on the Focal Temperature and Thermal Lesion of Biological Tissue Irradiated by HIFU [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Physics, 2023 Introduction: Accurate temperature and thermal lesion prediction is very important for high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in the treatment of tumors.
HU DONG, GANG LIU, GAOFENG PENG
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 Various surgical techniques and pharmaceutical treatments have been developed to improve the current technologies of treating brain diseases. Focused ultrasound (FUS) is a new brain stimulation modality that can exert a therapeutic effect on diseased ...
Hongchae Baek +8 more
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Focused ultrasound for treatment of peripheral brain tumors [PDF]
Exploration of Drug Science, 2023 Malignant brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related death in children and remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality throughout all demographics.
Phillip Mitchell Johansen +5 more
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Recent Advances in the Use of Focused Ultrasound as a Treatment for Epilepsy
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Epilepsy affects about 1% of the population. Approximately one third of patients with epilepsy are drug-resistant (DRE). Resective surgery is an effective treatment for DRE, yet invasive, and not all DRE patients are suitable resective surgery candidates.
Emma Lescrauwaet +9 more
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High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation around the tubing. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been emerging as an effective and noninvasive modality in cancer treatment with very promising clinical results. However, a small vessel in the focal region could be ruptured, which is an important concern for
Jun Yang Siu, Chenhui Liu, Yufeng Zhou
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Ultrasound-guided trans-rectal high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for advanced cervical cancer ablation is feasible: a case report. [PDF]
, 2015 High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is an ablative treatment undergoing assessment for the treatment of benign and malignant disease. We describe the first reported intracavitary HIFU ablation for recurrent, unresectable and symptomatic cervical ...
Abel, M +9 more
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High-intensity focused ultrasound for hepatocellular carcinoma: A single-center experience [PDF]
, 2011 Objective: This study aims to evaluate the outcome of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treated by high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in a single tertiary referral center. Background: HIFU is the latest developed local ablation technique
Chan, SC +10 more
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