High-Intensity Focused Ultrasonography and Radiofrequency Ablation of Renal Cell Carcinoma Arisen in Transplanted Kidneys: Single-Center Experience With Long-Term Follow-Up and Review of Literature.
Giulio Di CandioFrancesco PorcelliAlessandro CampatelliSimone GuadagniFabio VistoliLuca MorelliPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2019)
The purpose of this article is to retrospectively evaluate the long-term outcome of patients treated with percutaneous thermoablation for renal cell carcinomas that have arisen in kidney grafts. Between April 2008 and February 2011, we treated 3 patients with renal cell carcinoma on a transplanted kidney: 2 cases were treated with high-intensity focused ultrasonography and 1 patient with radio frequency ablation. Postprocedural ultrasonography did not reveal any complications, and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography showed an avascular area in the treated nodules. None of the patients had recurrent tumors during a long-term clinical and radiologic follow-up (81, 73, and 43 months, respectively).
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- high intensity
- radiofrequency ablation
- magnetic resonance imaging
- renal cell carcinoma
- diffusion weighted
- magnetic resonance
- computed tomography
- newly diagnosed
- resistance training
- diffusion weighted imaging
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- risk factors
- prognostic factors
- case report
- dual energy
- stem cells
- cell therapy
- high grade
- genome wide
- ultrasound guided
- gene expression