Ultrasound-guided cryoprostatectomy - a potential alternative to transurethral prostatic resection in the high risk patient

Various alternatives to transurethral prostatectomy in the high-risk patient have been described and evaluated, but none has yet achieved widespread acceptance. Cryosurgical prostatectomy has fallen out of use due mainly to the consequences of the inabil ity of the operator to control the extent of freezing. On the basis of experimental studies suggesting that real-time ultrasound could be used to monitor the procedure, we undertook a study of …