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Atlas of Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery

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The goal of hepatic cryosurgery is complete destruction of tumors for curative or palliative reasons as an alternative to resection where resection is not feasible.

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  1. Department of Surgery, The University of New South Wales St. George Hospital, Gray Street, Kogarah, NSW, 2217, Australia

    Koroush S. Haghighi & David L. Morris

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  1. Department of Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland

    Pierre-Alain Clavien MD, PhD  & Panco Georgiev MD  & 

  2. Department of Surgery, Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Michael G. Sarr MD

  3. Department of Surgery, Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Yuman Fong MD

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Haghighi, K.S., Morris, D.L. (2007). Cryosurgery. In: Clavien, PA., Sarr, M.G., Fong, Y., Georgiev, P. (eds) Atlas of Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68866-2_46

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