Ultrasound-guided Microbubble in the Treatment of Cancer: A Mini Narrative Review

Microbubble is an emerging modality in the field of Medicine for treatment and imaging. Ultrasound-guided microbubble is an effective diagnosing and treatment technique as it can reduce the systemic toxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs. It is also used in targeted gene delivery in gene therapy. The ob...

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Autor principal: Ambika Rajendran, Minu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6217872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30416906
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3256
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description Microbubble is an emerging modality in the field of Medicine for treatment and imaging. Ultrasound-guided microbubble is an effective diagnosing and treatment technique as it can reduce the systemic toxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs. It is also used in targeted gene delivery in gene therapy. The objective of the review article is to formulate a narrative review on the emerging importance of microbubbles in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and its future in cancer management. The article focuses on the effectiveness of ultrasound-targeted microbubble in the treatment of malignancy.
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spelling pubmed-62178722018-11-11 Ultrasound-guided Microbubble in the Treatment of Cancer: A Mini Narrative Review Ambika Rajendran, Minu Cureus Internal Medicine Microbubble is an emerging modality in the field of Medicine for treatment and imaging. Ultrasound-guided microbubble is an effective diagnosing and treatment technique as it can reduce the systemic toxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs. It is also used in targeted gene delivery in gene therapy. The objective of the review article is to formulate a narrative review on the emerging importance of microbubbles in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and its future in cancer management. The article focuses on the effectiveness of ultrasound-targeted microbubble in the treatment of malignancy. Cureus 2018-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6217872/ /pubmed/30416906 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3256 Text en Copyright © 2018, Ambika Rajendran et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Ultrasound-guided Microbubble in the Treatment of Cancer: A Mini Narrative Review
title Ultrasound-guided Microbubble in the Treatment of Cancer: A Mini Narrative Review
title_full Ultrasound-guided Microbubble in the Treatment of Cancer: A Mini Narrative Review
title_fullStr Ultrasound-guided Microbubble in the Treatment of Cancer: A Mini Narrative Review
title_full_unstemmed Ultrasound-guided Microbubble in the Treatment of Cancer: A Mini Narrative Review
title_short Ultrasound-guided Microbubble in the Treatment of Cancer: A Mini Narrative Review
title_sort ultrasound-guided microbubble in the treatment of cancer: a mini narrative review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6217872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30416906
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3256
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