Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts

Name: Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts
Uploaded: 2011-12-08T16:28:08Z
Duration: 15 min 56 s
Description: Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths.

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TEDMED 2011

• October 2011

Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths.