Cryosurgery is a surgical technique that employs freezing to destroy undesirable tissue‎.‎ From as early as 3500 BC‎,‎ there is evidence for the use of cold in medicine for the treatment of infected wounds of the chest‎,‎ fracture of the skull and various injuries‎.‎ However‎,‎ the history of ‎"‎modern‎"‎ cryosurgery is relatively short and is closely intertwined with the development in low temperature physics‎,‎ engineering‎,‎ and instrumentation during the last century‎.‎From the early 21st century‎,‎ advanced helium‎-based cryosurgery has been applied worldwide‎.‎ More than ten thousand patients with malignant and benign tumors have received cryosurgery‎.‎ It is specially noted that in most cases cryosurgery‎,‎ as a mini‎-invasive ablation technique‎,‎ was performed with percutaneous approach under guidance of CT or ultrasound‎.‎ Cryosurgery is now one of the more popular techniques in China‎,‎ with nearly 6000 cases of tumors receiving cryosurgery in the author‎'‎s institution alone‎.‎ This book summarizes the experimental and clinical experience and practice of cryosurgery‎,‎ and describes the basics of cryosurgery and its use in the treatment of various tumors‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Kecheng Xu‎,‎ Nikolai N Korpan ‎,‎ Lizhi Niu
• Publisher‎:‎ World Scientific Publishing
• ISBN‎:‎ 9789814329651