Proceedings

• Urology
  1. Comparison of 5 and 6/8 probes technology in prostate cryoablation (R Badalament)
  2. Transrectal ultrasound guided cryosurgical ablation of prostate cancer: four-year follow-up study (DK Bahn, F Lee)
  3. Fluid Injection into Denonvillier's Fascia During Cryosurgery (Gary Onik MD and Martin Dineen MD)
  4. Patient-reported complications after cryoablation therapy for prostate cancer (DK Bahn, F Lee, R Badalament, A Kumar)
  5. The evolving cryosurgical experience - a review (RS Gould)
  6. Cryosurgical ablation of the prostate post radiation failure: the Columbia experience (ER Emanuel, MJ Stifelman, JM McKiernan, MC Benson, CA Olsson, AE Katz)
  7. Interim assessment of cryosurgery as a primary treatment for prostate cancer (John Saliken)
  8. The quality of life of men with localized prostate cancer treated with cryosurgery: three-year follow-up (JW Robinson, P Barnes, JC Saliken, BJ Donnelly, A Williams-Gibson)
  9. A randomized Phase III trial comparing radiation vs. Cryosurgery for clinically localized prostate cancer (B Donnelly, J Saliken, S Ernst, P Corbett, J Robinson, D Vellet, P Brasher, N Ali-Ridha,J Rewcastle, J Seidel)
  10. Eco thermo-guided transperineal prostatic cryoablation of the prostate for adenocarcinoma - an experience with 102 patients (F Lugnani, P Derakhshani, C d'Hondt, M Polito, I Guercini)
  11. Cryoablation in Organ Consigned Malignancy of the Prostate Gland Preliminary Experience' (Haakon Waebre M.D., Harald Trasti M.D.)
  12. Surgery in kidney neoplasms: revision of the literature and presentation of 2 cases (F Lugnani, A Paganini, F Feliciotti, M Guerrieri, A Tamburini, G Mazza, L DeMorpurgo, E Lezoche)
  13. Effects of Freezing on cell Viability and Mechanisms of Cell Death in a Human Prostate Cancer Cell Line (John G. Baust, Robert G. Van Buskirk, William R. Hollister, Aby J. Mathew)
  14. The clinical application of cryoimmunotherapy for advanced prostate cancer (V Mouraviev, G Prochorov, V Konusova, A Simbircev, A Popovitch)

• Ginechology
  1. Cryosurgery of urethral caruncle and prolapse (JC Almeida Goncalves and JM Pires Teixeira)
  2. Laparoscopic and histological assessment of cryotherapy of uterine fibroids in an Eker rat model (M Baptista, D Swanlund, C Walker, J Delaney, JC Bischof)
  3. Basal cell carcinoma of vulva treated with radio frequency and cryosurgery (JE Mauro, E Stolar, E TurJansky, A Guglielminetti, C Jakob, A Sancineto)
  4. Big condylomas of vulva, vagina and cervix in a pregnant patient treated with radiofrequency and cryosurgery (JE Mauro, E Stolar, E Tuijansky, M Pesaresi, MC Kordich, D Perez)
  5. Treatment with radio frequency and cryosurgery of squamous cell carcinoma of vulva and vagina recurred to surgery (JE Mauro, E Stolar, E Tu~ansky, JC Balparda, A Seoane)

• Liver
  1. Optimization of cryosurgery of paracaval hepatic metastases by portal inflow occlusion K Hegenauer, G Pistorius, G Schuder, M Menger, G Feifel
  2. Hepatic cryotherapy - a well-established treatment for primary and secondary liver cancer DI Morris
  3. Hepatic cryosurgery: experimental studies, Part I (NN Korpan, LV Keysevich, JV Zharkov, G Hochwarter)
  4. Hepatic cryosurgery: long-term survival after palliative surgical cancer treatment, Part II (NN Korpan, G Hochwarter, F Sellner, JV Zharkov)
  5. Hepatic cryosurgery: laparoscopic approach, Part III (NN Korpan, G Hochwarter, JV Zharkov F Sellner, VN Chernev)
  6. Pre-operative Imaging of the Liver (Peter J. Littrup, M.D.)
  7. Cryosurgery as a treatment for advanced stage - hepatocellular carcinoma Results, complications, and alcohol ablation (WS Wong, SC Patel, FS Cruz, KV Gala, AF Turner)
  8. Cryosurgery for small metastases in the liver (WK Berger)
  9. Hepatic cryosurgery for unresectable recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (CM Lam, ST Fan)
  10. An alternative strategy in the treatment of patients with unresectable hepatomas (AJ Bilchik, K Chu, KP Ramming)
  11. A Five-Year Institutional Experience with Hepatic Cryosurgery for Unresectable Colorectal Metastases Refractory to Chemotherapy (AJ Bilchik, T Sarantou, SL Stem, K Adnani, PI Haigh, KP Ramming)
  12. Percutaneous Cryotherapy of Liver Tumors (G Pistorius, G Schuder, K Hegenauer, G Schneider, G Feifel, W Berger)
  13. Cryosurgery for the Treatment of Hepatic Tumors (AM Paganini, F Lugnani, F Feliciotti, M Guerrieri, A Tamburini, F Antognini, E. Lezoche)
  14. Intraoperative cryosurgery and cytokine-potentiated cryoimmunostimulation (J Zaloudik)

• Polmonary
  1. Endoscopic cryotherapy of tracheal and bronchial tumors - more than ten years experience (M Pesek, I Bruha, M Terl, J Straus Plzcn
  2. Cryotherapy for Tracheobronchial Carcinoma M 0 (aa.vv.)
  3. Compared indications of cryosurgery and high frequency thermocoagulation for the treatment of tracheobronchial lesions. Competitive or complementary methods? (aa.vv.)

• Dermatology
  1. When cryosurgery is the Best Choice in treating Dermatologic lesions (Jaime Ferrer-Bernet)
  2. Cryosurgery in advanced malignancies (P Pasquali)
  3. Recurrent basal cell carcinoma treated with cryosurgery (EG Kuflik)
  4. Cryosurgery in the extramammary Paget's disease recurred to surgery (JE Mauro, E Stolar, E Tu~ansky, A Guglielminetti, C Jakob)
  5. Our Experience in Melanomas (Dr Eliezer Rujansky & Dr Esther Stolar)
  6. Internal Angle of Eyes Tumors Treatment with Cryosurgery (Ferraro, G, Lopez, Aguero, L.C. Berger, A.L. Romero)
  7. Treatment With Cryosurgery of the Tumors of the Auricular Pavilion (Dr Lopez Aguero, L.C.; Ferraro, G., Berger, A.L., Romero, RN)
  8. Laser and Cryosurgery for the Treatment of Congenital nevus (J.M. Fernandez- Vozediano)
  9. Cryosurgery of Advanced External Cancer, Cancers of the Orbit, Extremities, and Pilonidal Cancers (I C. Almeida Goncalvess)
  10. Compound Cellular and Intradermal Nevi on the Face Treatment with the Association of Techniques: Radiosurgery and Cryosurgery (Dr.Guzman Mariano Hernan)
  11. Solitary keratoacanthoma: compound treatment with radiofrequency and cryosurgery (OC Pierri, L Lopez Agaero, M Soffer, G Ferraro, T Santillan)
  12. Malignant Ecrine Poroma Treatment of Multiple Recurrences with Radiosurgery Plus Cryosurgery (Dr. Lopez Aguero, L; Soffer, M, Santillan, T; Ferraro, G, Garcia)
  13. Primary Ecrine Anexial Carcinoma: Treatment with Surgery Plus Cryosurgery (Dr Ferraro, G.M. Lopez Aguero)
  14. Our Experience in the Treatment of Skin Cancer (Dr Eliezer Tu~ansky & Dr Esther Stolar)
  15. Cryopeeling For Diffuse Actinic Keratoses Twice as Effective as 5-FU and Cosmetically Elegant (Stepehn E. Chiarello)
  16. Hand Dermoabrasion and Liquid Nitrogen; its uses in Cosmiatry. Aging skin, Epilia, Tatoos, Etc. (Dr Esther Stolar & Dr Eliezer Turjansky)
  17. Actinic Keratosis: Treatment with Cryosurgery (Dr Guzman Mariano Hernan)
  18. Tuberose Sclerosis New Alternative Treatment (Dr. Ferraro, G., Santillan, T., Lopez Aguero, L., Soffer)
  19. In Situ Carcinoma of the Lower Lip Treatment with Cryosurgery (Dr. Santillan, T., Lopez Aguero, L.C., Ferraro)
  20. Senile Lentigo Treatment with Cryosurgery (Dr Guzman Mariano Hernan)
  21. Multidisciplinary Treatment of HPV Lesions (Dr Esther Stolar & Dr Eliezer Tujansky)
  22. Cryosurgery Treatment Of Plantar Warts (Dr. David Buckley)
  23. Cryotherapy and It's Cosmetic Effect (Guo Yude, & Chang Sougyu)
  24. Lentigo Malignant Melanoma (J.M. Fernandez
  25. Dermatologic Lesions in HIV Patients Treated by Cryosurgery (Dr. Ferraro, G., Lopez Aguero, L.C., Berger, A., Romer, R. V., Santillan, T., Soffer)
  26. Cryosurgery of Advanced External Cancer.I- Cancers of the orbit, extremities, and pilonidal cancers (J. C Almeida Goncalves)

• Instrumentation
  1. Rectal protection with a silicone insulating device during prostate cryosurgery: study in a canine model (DM Zapzalka, JH Hulbert, MF Hoey, N MerryTC -Bischof)
  2. Dynamic cryosurgery: creating a more potent iceball with the use of thermal waves (JC Rewcastle, GA Sandison, JC Saliken, JG McKinnon, BJ Donnelly)
  3. Formable and flexible cryoprobes for internal medicine: an update (P LePivert)
  4. X-ray CT: an attractive alternative for monitoring iceball growth (GA Sandison, JC Rewcastle, LJ Hahn)
  5. Concept of technical requirements for cryosurgical equipment (NN Korpan, JV Zharkov, G Hochwarter, R Sacher, R. Kaitna, W Gardowsky)
  6. New cryosurgical devices for cryolesion of tumors and pain elimination (Dr. sc. nat. Ralf Herzog, R Herzog, A Binneberg, H Buschmann, B Schumann, U Eckelt, L PaBler, A Raschke, K Ullmann, S Matthes, E Sporl)
  7. Development of ultrasonic devices for monitoring and optimization of cryosurgical procedures (A Rikberg, E Bakay, S Yesman, A Baritsky, M Baglayev, V Trushina)
  8. 3D Ultrasound Use During Cryosurgery (Gary Onik, Boris Rubinsky)
  9. New Methods for Monitoring Cryosurgery, Light Imaging (David Otten, David Benaron, Boris Rubinsky)
  10. Simulation of prostate cryoablation (J Jankun, M Jankun, TJ Kelly, S Selman)

• General
  1. Cryoimmunology/Cryoimmunotherapy: 30 Years. (Richard J. Ablin.)
  2. Cryosurgery of the AT-1 Dunning prostate tumor in vitro, in vivo and in the dorsal skin flap chamber (NE Hoffmann, DJ Swanlund, KP Roberts, JC Manivel, JC Bischof)
  3. The freeze-thaw cycles - optimal cryosurgical technique (AA Gage)
  4. Maintenance of freezing increases the degree of cryodamage in cancer cells (WK Berger)
  5. Cryopreservation and cryosurgery (Sajio Sumida)
  6. Cesarean Sections for Placenta Previa Pregnancy Using Frozen Autotransfusion. 97.3% Successful without Allotransfusion (S. Sumida, K. Oshikawa, K. Hara, and S. Kubota)
  7. Use of vitrified organs and tissues for transplantation - theoretical and practical implications (J Bodziony)
  8. The cause and prevention fractures in cryopreserved tissues (M Wusteman and D Pegg )
  9. Clonogenicity of hematopoetic progenitor cells - influence of storage conditions and cultural techniques (W. Gebauer, E Fallgren-Gebauer, F Schunter)
  10. Cryopreserving hematopoietic stem cells for autologous or allogeneic transplantation (M Korbling)
  11. Temperature effects on the nerve stem compound action potential in toad nervus ischiadicus (Cheng De Wei, Zhu Ming Rong, Wang Hui Ling)
  12. In Vitro Method for Determining a Cryosurgery Protocol (Kristine Tatsutani, Boris Rubinsky)
  13. Enhanced Cryo-destruction with Antifreeze Proteins (Homayoon Koushafar, Linda Pham, Boris Rubinsky)
  14. A System For Safely Propagating Cryosurgery (Gary Onik MD, Perry Narayan MD, Martin Dineen MD, Thomas Brown MD, David Vaughan MD, Nabil Hilwa MD, Thomas Stringer MD, David Sneed MD, Richard Brunelle MD, Nicholai Zelneronok MD)
  15. Cryosurgery in geriatrics (ZV Kalmykova, LP Mezhov-Deglin)
  16. Focus on cryoimmunology (G Fontana, M Governa, P Gamba)
  17. Immunological responses following endobronchial cryotherapy for obstructive tumours (M 0 Maiwand, S Sarkar and M Ainsworth)
  18. Horseshoe fistula plus interesting cases (H Botros)
  19. Twenty-Year Experience With Cryosurgery Proctology (aa.vv.)
  20. Aneurismal bone cyst case report treated by cryosurgery (C Covarrubias)
  21. Treatment Of Hemangiomas In Children By Cryomethod (Shafranov V.V. Butorina AN. Borkhunova E. N.)

• Ice-Ball Tips
  1. Method of extension of the volume of the zone of cryolesion (V V Shafranov, AV Kobiatsky, EN Borkhunova, AV Taganov)
  2. The ablative ratio: a concept for quantifying the potency of an iceball (JC Rewcastle, GA Sandison, JC Saliken, NB Rewcastle, JG McKinnon, BJ Donnelly)
  3. New Methods for Monitoring Cryosurgery, MRI (Boris Rubinsky)
  4. Some theoretical aspects of cryosurgery (VV Shafranov, DI Tsyganov, AV Taganov, EN Borkhunova)