thermocoagulation

For those, we tried heater probe thermocoagulation or surgical intervention.

Other patients had heat probe thermocoagulation or surgery.

Methods used to destroy tissue included thermocoagulation, suction, radioisotopes and leucotomes.

They might receive a second injection with the same solution or other solutions, heater probe thermocoagulation or surgery.

Lin et al, after one or two sessions of thermocoagulation, achieved a significant lower rate of rebleeding, emergency operation, death, and days in hospital compared with control patients.

The thermocoagulation or injection of glycerol into the trigeminal ganglion has been used in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.

For a laser to ablate tissues, the power density or fluence must be high, otherwise thermocoagulation occurs, which is simply thermal vaporization of the tissues.

Although various endoscopic treatments have been developed in the past 10 years, heat probe thermocoagulation and multipolar electrocoagulation are the two most promising techniques for treating bleeding peptic ulcers.

In four additional patients bleeding recurred after heater probe treatment and in one of them, with high surgical risk, successful control of haemorrhage was obtained in a second thermocoagulation session.

Surgery is offered if there is failure of medical therapy or rapid growth of lesion, with specific options including stereotactic thermocoagulation, gamma knife radiosurgery, and physical resection by transsphenoidal microsurgery.