Image-Guided Prostate Cryoablation: State-of-the-Art
Image-guided focal therapy has increased in popularity as a treatment option for patients with primary and locally recurrent prostate cancer. This review will cover the basic indications, evaluation, treatment algorithm, and follow-up for patients undergoing image-guided ablation of the prostate. Ad...
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| author | Vijay Ramalingam Colin J. McCarthy Spencer Degerstedt Muneeb Ahmed |
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| description | Image-guided focal therapy has increased in popularity as a treatment option for patients with primary and locally recurrent prostate cancer. This review will cover the basic indications, evaluation, treatment algorithm, and follow-up for patients undergoing image-guided ablation of the prostate. Additionally, this paper will serve as an overview of some technical approaches to cases so that physicians can familiarize themselves with working in this space. While the focus of this paper is prostate cryoablation, readers will obtain a basic literature overview of some of the additional available image-guided treatment modalities for focal prostate therapy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-328c5fadb3974467bd5656f3ebfe021e2023-11-19T11:52:05ZengMDPI AGMedicina1010-660X1648-91442023-09-01599158910.3390/medicina59091589Image-Guided Prostate Cryoablation: State-of-the-ArtVijay Ramalingam0Colin J. McCarthy1Spencer Degerstedt2Muneeb Ahmed3Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Deaconess Rd, Rosenburg 3, Boston, MA 02215, USABeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Deaconess Rd, Rosenburg 3, Boston, MA 02215, USABeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Deaconess Rd, Rosenburg 3, Boston, MA 02215, USABeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Deaconess Rd, Rosenburg 3, Boston, MA 02215, USAImage-guided focal therapy has increased in popularity as a treatment option for patients with primary and locally recurrent prostate cancer. This review will cover the basic indications, evaluation, treatment algorithm, and follow-up for patients undergoing image-guided ablation of the prostate. Additionally, this paper will serve as an overview of some technical approaches to cases so that physicians can familiarize themselves with working in this space. While the focus of this paper is prostate cryoablation, readers will obtain a basic literature overview of some of the additional available image-guided treatment modalities for focal prostate therapy.https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/59/9/1589prostate focal therapyprostate cryoablationmen’s health |
| spellingShingle | Vijay Ramalingam Colin J. McCarthy Spencer Degerstedt Muneeb Ahmed Image-Guided Prostate Cryoablation: State-of-the-Art Medicina prostate focal therapy prostate cryoablation men’s health |
| title | Image-Guided Prostate Cryoablation: State-of-the-Art |
| title_full | Image-Guided Prostate Cryoablation: State-of-the-Art |
| title_fullStr | Image-Guided Prostate Cryoablation: State-of-the-Art |
| title_full_unstemmed | Image-Guided Prostate Cryoablation: State-of-the-Art |
| title_short | Image-Guided Prostate Cryoablation: State-of-the-Art |
| title_sort | image guided prostate cryoablation state of the art |
| topic | prostate focal therapy prostate cryoablation men’s health |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/59/9/1589 |
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