Treatment of localized prostate cancer using high-intensity focused ultrasound.

T, Uchida; H, Ohkusa; Y, Nagata; T, Hyodo; T, Satoh; A, Irie

doi:10.1111/j.1464-410x.2006.05864.x

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Treatment of localized prostate cancer using high-intensity focused ultrasound.

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Authors:

Uchida T

Ohkusa H

Nagata Y

Abstract

Objective To evaluate the biochemical disease-free survival (DFS), predictors of clinical outcome and morbidity of patients with localized prostate cancer treated with high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), a noninvasive treatment that induces complete coagulative necrosis of a tumour at depth th...

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