Renal cysts: Can percutaneous ethanol injections be considered an alternative to surgery?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-200

  Gasparini, Daniele ^a   Sponza, Massimo ^a   Valotto, Claudio ^a   Marzio, Andrea ^b   Luciani, Lorenzo G ^a   Zattoni, Filiberto ^a  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interventional procedures, renal cysts; Percutaneous ethanol injection; Renal cysts; Sclerotization

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST FLUID; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG COST; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJECTION; KIDNEY CYST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; SCLEROTHERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ETHANOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SCLEROTHERAPY; SUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0043175100     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071846     Document Type: Article

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