Cryotherapy
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Cryotherapy is the use of extreme cold to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue.
We use cryotherapy to treat lung cancer tumors, as well as obstructions in the airway and other parts of the body.
During cryotherapy, liquid nitrogen or argon gas flows through a long, thin insulated tube. Using image guidance, your doctor places a probe on the tumor or obstruction and freezes the cells. After the procedure, the tissue is absorbed by the body or removed by your doctor.
Cryotherapy may be an effective treatment for lung cancer tumors that cannot be removed by surgery. Cryotherapy can also be a life-saving option for patients with obstructions in the airway, especially those who have a stent and would not be candidates for other Interventional Pulmonology procedures.
Interventional Pulmonology
- Airway Stent removal, modification and maintenance (for stents placed by previous physicians)
- Airway Stents
- All Digital: Portable Fluoroscopy and X-Rays
- Argon Plasma Coagulation (APC)
- AuroLase® Therapy
- Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy / Fluorescence Bronchoscopy
- Balloon Bronchoplasty
- Brachytherapy (see High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy )
- Bronchoscopy
- Cardiopulmonary Services
- Cryotherapy
- CT Angiography
- CT Respiratory Gating
- Embolization
- Endobronchial Brachytherapy
- Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS)
- Endobronchial Valve
- Fiducial Marker Placement
- Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA)
- HAST Testing-High Altitude Simulation Studies
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filter Placement
- Interventional Angiography
- Interventional Pulmonology
- IVC Filter Placement
- Kyphoplasty
- Laser Bronchoscopy
- Lobectomy
- Lung Biopsy
- Lung Capacity Studies
- Lung Nodule Analysis
- Medical Pleuroscopy
- Navigational Bronchoscopy
- Nd: YAG Laser
- PDT with cold laser tumor-specific tissue destruction
- Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)
- PICC Lines
- Pleurodesis (with chemotherapy or talc) / Pleuroscopy
- Pneumonectomy
- Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT)
- Quantitative Ventilation Perfusion Studies
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Respiratory Gating
- Rigid Ventilating Bronchoscopy & Flexible Bronchoscopy
- Segmentectomy
- Full Service Sleep Center at Eastern (also see Sleep Lab at Southwestern)
- Sleep Medicine (see Sleep Center at Eastern, or Sleep Lab at Southwestern)
- SpyGlass™ (Cholangioscopy)
- Super-Dimension GPS Bronchoscopy
- Thoracentesis
- Thoracentesis and Pleural Biopsy
- Thoracic Surgery
- Thoracotomy
- Thrombolysis
- Transbronchial Needle Aspiration
- Vertebroplasty / Vertebral Ablation (see Kyphoplasty)
- Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)
- X-Ray
