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Special thanks to Dr. Alosh Madala and Dr. Gillian Stearns for intraoperative photography.

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  1. Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA

    Timothy Byler M.D. & Imad Nsouli M.D.

  2. Urology Division, Surgery Department, VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Imad Nsouli M.D.

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  1. Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA

    Rakesh V. Khanna

  2. Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA

    Gennady Bratslavsky

  3. Center for Robotic and Image Guided Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Robert J. Stein

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Byler, T., Nsouli, I. (2015). Prostate Cryoablation. In: Khanna, R., Bratslavsky, G., Stein, R. (eds) Surgical Techniques for Prostate Cancer. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1616-0_9

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