["Cryotherapy" (in general surgery and related areas)].
Application of the extremely low temperature to medicine, essential of cryotherapy/cryosurgery is a "High Energy Treatment", excellent in cost benefit. Tissue temperature of -50 degrees C or tissue impedance of 500 k omega can destroy the tumor. Cryosurgery provides dual prominent features: in situ destruction of the tumor which otherwise are difficult to treat, and the potential tumor-specific immunotherapy. Thus cryotherapy/cryosurgery should be incorporated into the multi-disciplinary regimen against cancer. Future problems include: clinical application of cryoimmunotherapy or cryoimmunointensification therapy, endoscopic cryosurgery as a closed surgery, and cryochemotherapy, a new mode of treatment.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D003452:Cryosurgery / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005615:Freezing; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010835:Phytohemagglutinins / Q000494:pharmacology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D014463:Ultrasonography
D010835:Phytohemagglutinins