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ArticleJournal of ultrasound2022

Treatment of canine and feline sarcoma using MR-guided focused ultrasound system.

Anastasia Antoniou, Nikolas Evripidou, Stelios Panayiotou, Kyriakos Spanoudes, Christakis Damianou

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Article in Journal of ultrasound, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Focused Ultrasound for Sarcomas: A Narrative Review.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025
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  6. A review of the development of histotripsy for extremity tumor ablation with a canine comparative oncology model to inform human treatments.International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anastasia AntoniouDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Informatics, Cyprus University of Technology, 30 Archbishop Kyprianou Street, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus.
Nikolas EvripidouDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Informatics, Cyprus University of Technology, 30 Archbishop Kyprianou Street, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus.
Stelios PanayiotouSGS Diagnostic Centre of Histopathology and Cytology Limited, 21 Thessalonikis, 3025, Limassol, Cyprus.
Kyriakos SpanoudesDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Informatics, Cyprus University of Technology, 30 Archbishop Kyprianou Street, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus.
Christakis DamianouDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Informatics, Cyprus University of Technology, 30 Archbishop Kyprianou Street, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus. christakis.damianou@cut.ac.cy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0424-2851
Cyprus University of Technology · CYLimassol General Hospital · CY

Funding

Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus ENTERPRISES/0618/0016
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeIn recent years, veterinary medicine has enhanced its applications beyond traditional approaches, progressively incorporating the Focused Ultrasound (FUS) technology. This study investigated the ability of FUS to precisely ablate naturally occurring canine and feline soft tissue sarcomas (STS).

methodsSix dogs and four cats with superficial tumours were enrolled in the study. The tumours were treated with a Magnetic Resonance guided FUS (MRgFUS) robotic system featuring a single element spherically focused transducer of 2.6 MHz. The tumours were then removed by surgery and sent for hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining.

resultsThe MRgFUS system was capable of inflicting well-defined overlapping lesions in the tumours. The anatomical sites of the treated tumours were the neck, leg, face, back and belly. Coagulative necrosis was evidenced by histopathology assessment in 80% of cases.

conclusionTherefore, this technology can be a therapeutic solution for veterinary cancer and a model for advancing the knowledge on human STS.

Indexed as

Cat DiseasesDog DiseasesHigh-Intensity Focused Ultrasound AblationSarcomaSoft Tissue NeoplasmsAnimalsCatsDogsHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingCatsDogsMRgFUSRobotic deviceSarcomasSuperficial cancer

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PMID35277843
PMCPMC9705640
OpenAlexW4220988338

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