Extracorporeal application of high-intensity focused ultrasound for prostatic tissue ablation

BJU International

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-76

  Häcker, Axel ^a   Köhrmann, Kai Uwe ^c   Back, Walter ^a   Kraut, Oliver ^b   Marlinghaus, Ernst ^b   Alken, Peter ^a   Michel, Maurice Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Storz Medical AG   (Switzerland)

^c Theresienkrankenhaus Mannheim ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

High intensity focused ultrasound; Prostate; Tissue ablation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOG; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SAFETY; TISSUE INJURY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; DOGS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NECROSIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 21744441677     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05570.x     Document Type: Article

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