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According to the literature [1–4] the core temperature needed for a lesion to be destroyed has to be between − 15° C to − 40° C, thus it is obvious that most cooling agents can be used as their saturation temperature is in the range of − 30° C to − 200° C as shown in Table 1.
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Verdier, J. (1992). The cryogens. In: Homasson, JP., Bell, N. (eds) Cryotherapy in Chest Medicine. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0880-2_3
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