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Cryobiopsy: Physics

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Transbronchial cryobiopsy in diffuse parenchymal lung disease

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Cold temperatures have been used in medicine for several decades, mainly for therapeutic purposes in several fields. The underlining physic principle is the “Joule-Thomson” effect: it is a phenomenon in which the temperature of a real gas increases or decreases following, respectively, its compression or its expansion—as a result from a pressure difference—that is carried out without extracting a work. Different cryogenic gases have been used so far.

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    Venerino Poletti

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Colella, S. (2019). Cryobiopsy: Physics. In: Poletti, V. (eds) Transbronchial cryobiopsy in diffuse parenchymal lung disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14891-1_4

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