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Basics of Cryosurgery

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Nikolai N. Korpan

    1. Department of Surgery, Evangelical Hospital Vienna-Waehring, Vienna International Institute for Cryosurgery, Vienna, Austria

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  • Comprehensive description of theoretical, experimental and clinical aspects of cryosurgery, as well as cryosurgical equipment and technology

  • Fundamental scientific textbook with more than 300 extraordinary photos, X-rays, etc.

  • In collaboration with well-known international experts

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXII
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  2. Basic Principles of Cryosurgery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Cryosurgery in the 21st Century

      • Nikolai N. Korpan
      Pages 3-8

    3. Cryosurgery and Cryotechnology — Future Safety in Medicine

      • Nikolai N. Korpan, Jaroslav V. Zharkov
      Pages 9-11

  3. Experimental Aspects of Modern Cryosurgery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Experimental Cryosurgery

      • A. M. Granov
      Pages 15-23

    3. Cryoimmunology and Cryoimmunotherapy

      • Shunichi Ikekawa
      Pages 25-30

    4. Experimental Cryoimmunology

      • Shigeo Tanaka, Tetsuo Ohkuma, Zenichiro Ishii
      Pages 31-37

    5. Experimental Cryosurgery of the Adrenal Gland of Animals

      • Shigeo Tanaka
      Pages 39-44

  4. Clinical Cryosurgery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. The Use of Cryosurgery in Dermatology

      • Rodney P. R. Dawber
      Pages 47-87

    3. Cryosurgery of Advanced External Cancer

      • J. C. Almeida Gonçalves
      Pages 89-115

    4. Abdominal Cryosurgery

      • Nikolai N. Korpan
      Pages 117-150

    5. Pancreas Cryosurgery

      • Nikolai N. Korpan
      Pages 151-169

    6. Cryosurgery in Pulmonology

      • Omar Maiwand
      Pages 171-192

    7. Cryosurgical Urology

      • Douglas Chinn
      Pages 193-208

    8. Breast Cryosurgery

      • Nikolai N. Korpan
      Pages 209-229

    9. Cryosurgery for Bone Tumors

      • H. W. Bart Schreuder
      Pages 231-251

    10. Cryosurgery in the Treatment of Keloids and Hypertrophic Scars

      • Christos C. Zouboulis
      Pages 253-269

    11. Plastic Cryosurgery: Cryosurgery and its Cosmetic Effect

      • Yoshiaki Hosaka
      Pages 271-284
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and collaborators succeeded in proving met. We became acquainted during a their existence in the laboratory. General Meeting of the Board of Directors Cryosurgery is an alternative choice for of the European Society of Cryosurgery; I the treatment of selected patients with in­ was very impressed with his intelligence, ternal tumors. 1. S. Cooper, as long ago as energy and determination. He is an inno­ vative researcher, a scientist and a therapist, 1963, suggested the use of cryosurgery for the destruction of primary and metastatic with a good sense of leadership. Professor tumors of the liver, because cryosurgery Korpan has dedicated himself especially to has several well-known advantages over the study of the surgical treatment of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas, has pub­ classic surgery: 1) it is effective in inducing tumor cell necrosis; 2) it spares more nor­ lished many papers and is the author of mal tissue than resection, with less risk of three books. Co-founder in 1997 and vice hemorrhage and dissemination of cancer president of the European Society of Cryo­ cells; 3) it makes the treatment of unresec­ surgery, he is also founder and presi­ table tumors possible, particularly those dent of the Vienna International Institute involving large vessels; 4) it allows re­ for Cryosurgery. Also an inventor, he has treatment; 5) it may induce an immuno­ devised 31 patents, some of which are stimulating effect against residual cancer.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Surgery, Evangelical Hospital Vienna-Waehring, Vienna International Institute for Cryosurgery, Vienna, Austria

    Nikolai N. Korpan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Basics of Cryosurgery

  • Editors: Nikolai N. Korpan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6225-5

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Wien 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-211-83701-6Due: 08 November 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-6225-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 330

  • Topics: Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Dermatology, Oncology, Surgical Orthopedics

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