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A comparative laboratory study of liquid nitrogen and argon gas cryosurgery systems

Hewitt et al., 1997

Document ID
5162911147134123855
Author
Hewitt P
Zhao J
Akhter J
Morris D
Publication year
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Cryobiology

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Cryotherapy can now be applied using a variety of delivery systems and cryogens. We compared the Cryotech LCS 3000 liquid nitrogen system (Spembly, Andover, UK) with the CRYOcare argon gas-based system (Irvine, CA, USA) using three different 3-mm …
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