Ultrasonic Surgical Procedures
"Ultrasonic Surgical Procedures" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The use of HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES, in the frequency range of 20-60 kHz, to cut through or remove tissue. The tissue fragmentation by ultrasonic surgical instruments is caused by mechanical effects not heat as with HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION.
| Descriptor ID |
D059708
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.943
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| Concept/Terms |
Ultrasonic Surgical Procedures- Ultrasonic Surgical Procedures
- Procedure, Ultrasonic Surgical
- Procedures, Ultrasonic Surgical
- Surgical Procedure, Ultrasonic
- Surgical Procedures, Ultrasonic
- Ultrasonic Surgical Procedure
- Ultrasonic Surgery
- Surgeries, Ultrasonic
- Surgery, Ultrasonic
- Ultrasonic Surgeries
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ultrasonic Surgical Procedures" by people in Profiles.
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Miller TR, Guo S, Melhem ER, Eisenberg HM, Zhuo J, Kelm N, Dayan M, Gullapalli RP, Gandhi D. Predicting final lesion characteristics during MR-guided focused ultrasound pallidotomy for treatment of Parkinson's disease. J Neurosurg. 2021 03 01; 134(3):1083-1090.
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Miller TR, Zhuo J, Eisenberg HM, Fishman PS, Melhem ER, Gullapalli R, Gandhi D. Targeting of the dentato-rubro-thalamic tract for MR-guided focused ultrasound treatment of essential tremor. Neuroradiol J. 2019 Dec; 32(6):401-407.
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Blinder KJ, Awh CC, Tewari A, Garg SJ, Srivastava SK, Kolesnitchenko V. Introduction to hypersonic vitrectomy. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2019 May; 30(3):133-137.
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Hu JC, Lin DW. Current status of focal primary therapy for prostate cancer. Urol Oncol. 2012 Nov-Dec; 30(6):942-3.