title: Percutaneous cryoablation of symptomatic extraabdominal metastatic disease: preliminary results.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of our study was to describe our initial experience using percutaneous cryoablation for palliation of symptomatic extraabdominal metastases or recurrent soft-tissue tumors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Preliminary results suggest that percutaneous cryoablation may offer a minimally invasive alternative for relief of symptomatic metastatic disease in patients for whom conventional therapy failed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Brown Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy St., Providence, RI 02903, USA.
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Beland
authors.forename: Damian E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Dupuy
authors.forename: William W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Mayo-Smith
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D003452:Cryosurgery / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged