Observation of vascular injury after freezing: investigating the response of normal skin and subcutaneous AT-1 tumor tissue to cryosurgery in the dorsal skin flap chamber

Nathan E. Hoffmann, David J. Swanlund, John C. Bischof

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Abstract

A study was performed to test the hypothesis that host response injury, specifically vascular injury, causes the majority of tissue necrosis at the edge of a frozen region and therefore determines the size of the lesion seen after in vivo freezing. The dorsal skin flap chamber (DSFC) implanted in the Copenhagen rat served as the cryosurgical model. There was a statistical correlation between the region of vascular stasis and the region of tissue necrosis, and the lesion sizes were statistically similar for tumor and normal tissue which are dissimilar save for the presence of a vasculature. The minimum temperature required to cause this damage was much higher than the temperature required for AT-1 cell destruction in vitro, and was similar to temperatures which caused vascular injury in other studies. These results lend support to the addressed hypothesis.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Heat and Mass Transfer in Biotechnology
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Pages39-41
Number of pages3
Volume44
ISBN (Electronic)9780791816431
ISBN (Print)0791816435
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 1999
EventASME 1999 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 1999 - Nashville, United States
Duration: Nov 14 1999Nov 19 1999

Publication series

NameASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
Volume1999-E

Conference

ConferenceASME 1999 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 1999
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNashville
Period11/14/9911/19/99

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the NIH 1R29-CA75284-01 Al, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the U of M and a gift from CANDELA Corporation.

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