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Focused ultrasound (FUS) was approved by the FDA in 2004 and is available at 16 U.S. medical centers. Smith was treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. She lay belly down in a machine designed by an Israeli company, InSightec, for three hours the first day and almost four hours the second day. The device focuses high-frequency ultrasound beams at targeted spots of fibroid tissue, heating them to 180?. Doctors use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to track the volume and temperature of the fibroids after each zap. No incisions are needed. The treated fibroids shrink and become dead...
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