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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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Use of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) in Treating Uterine Fibroids: A Case Report [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical & Clinical Research, 2022 Uterine fibroids are the most common benign uterine tumours in women of reproductive age. They can present with different symptoms, including menorrhagia, cramping lower abdominal pain, bloating, urinary/bowel symptoms, spotting, and infertility ...
Yoana Ivanova-Yoncheva +4 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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Morphology of echinococcal liver lesions during treatment with high-intensity focused ultrasound [PDF]
, 2022 Aim: The purpose of morphological studies was to study pathogenetic mechanisms of the therapeutic effect of HIFU ablation on hepatic echinococcosis. Material and methods: Ablation of echinococcal cysts and alveococcal liver lesions no larger than 5 cm in
Galina Fedotovskikh +2 more
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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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