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Surgery & Medical Devices · Recorded milestone

Incisionless sound-wave surgery

Recorded year2023

HistoSonics wins US clearance for histotripsy, which breaks up liver tumours with focused ultrasound pulses from outside the body.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.