Misonix reports HIFU kidney trial success

AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Mar 21, 2007

Ultrasound technology developer Misonix said that results for the firm's Sonatherm 600 high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) clinical trials for kidney cancer were promising.

The Farmingdale, NY-based Misonix reported that Dr. Michael Marberger, chairman and professor of the department of urology at the University of Vienna Medical School in Austria said that procedures in the trial were successfully completed, with positive ablation effect noted on cancer cells in tumors within human kidneys.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
March 22, 2007

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Misonix lands Hungarian HIFU order, November 16, 2006

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