ReviewThe British journal of radiology2018
Focused ultrasound: tumour ablation and its potential to enhance immunological therapy to cancer.
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- High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation versus surgical interventions for the treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids: a meta-analysis.European radiology · 2022Pooled it
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- Focused ultrasound in pediatric neuro-oncology: Current applications and future directions.Neuro-oncology advances · 2026Review
- High-intensity focused ultrasound in the multimodal treatment of colorectal cancer liver metastases: A case report.Oncology letters · 2026Article
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- Overview of Therapeutic Ultrasound Applications and Safety Considerations: 2024 Update.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2025Review
- A flexible cystoscopy device prototype for mechanical tissue ablation based on micro-scale hydrodynamic cavitation: Ex vivo and in vivo studies.Ultrasonics sonochemistry · 2025Article
- Ultrasound-assisted immunotherapy for malignant tumour.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Preclinical studies of histotripsy for intracranial tumors.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Ultrasound-Mediated Non-Specific Splenic Immunopotentiation to Elicit Broad-Spectrum Anti-Neoplastic Effects.ImmunoTargets and therapy · 2025Article
- Optimization of ultrasound heating with Pickering droplets using core-shell scattering theory.Ultrasonics sonochemistry · 2024Article
- Linear endoscopic ultrasound: Current uses and future perspectives in mediastinal examination.World journal of gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Local therapy in glioma: An evolving paradigm from history to horizons (Review).Oncology letters · 2024Review
- Real-Time Cavitation Monitoring During Optical Coherence Tomography Guided Photo-Mediated Ultrasound Therapy of the Retina.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2024Article
- Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Tumors.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Guidelines for immunological analyses following focused ultrasound treatment.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2023Article
- Investigating multi-material hydrogel three-dimensional printing forRoyal Society open science · 2023Article
- Radiation combined with ultrasound and microbubbles: A potential novel strategy for cancer treatment.Zeitschrift fur medizinische Physik · 2023Review
- Advances in Focused Ultrasound for the Treatment of Brain Tumors.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Various kinds of image-guided techniques have been successfully applied in the last years for the treatment of tumours, as alternative to surgical resection. High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a novel, totally non-invasive, image-guided technique that allows for achieving tissue destruction with the application of focused ultrasound at high intensity. This technique has been successfully applied for the treatment of a large variety of diseases, including oncological and non-oncological diseases. One of the most fascinating aspects of image-guided ablations, and particularly of HIFU, is the reported possibility of determining a sort of stimulation of the immune system, with an unexpected "systemic" response to treatments designed to be "local". In the present article the mechanisms of action of HIFU are described, and the main clinical applications of this technique are reported, with a particular focus on the immune-stimulation process that might originate from tumour ablations.
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