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Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Cryosurgery: State of the Art

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  1. Prostate Cancer Research Centre, Celebration Health-Florida Hospital, Celebration, FL, USA

    Gary Onik

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  1. Department of Urology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

    Osamu Ukimura MD, PhD

  2. Section of Laparoscopic & Robotic Surgery, Glickman Urological Institute Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Inderbir S. Gill MD, MCh

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Onik, G. (2009). Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Cryosurgery: State of the Art. In: Ukimura, O., Gill, I.S. (eds) Contemporary Interventional Ultrasonography in Urology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-217-3_3

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