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SYSTEMIC HYPERTHERMIA [1 record]

Record 1 1992-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
OBS

In this procedure the total body is heated to about 42°C for many hours by several methods, including enshroudment in hot-water circulating suits, immersion in molten paraffin, and surgical attachment to heated extracorporeal circulatory shunts.

OBS

total body hyperthermia; whole body hyperthermia: Cancer Treatment, 1985, p. 899.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
CONT

Les moyens de réaliser une hyperthermie généralisée sont très divers. [...] Le malade est complètement enveloppé dans une feuille de polyéthène qui limite les pertes par évaporation et est placé dans un bac de cire chaude [...] ou dans une couverture chauffante à circulation d'eau [...]

OBS

Encyclopédie médico-chirurgicale,. L'hyperthermie en cancérologie, 1985, vol. 5, p. 5-4.

Spanish

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