Ablative therapies in the treatment of small renal tumors: How far from standard of care?

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 251-259

  Gontero, Paolo ^a   Joniau, Steven ^b   Zitella, Andrea ^a   Tailly, Thomas ^b   Tizzani, Alessandro ^a   Van Poppel, Hein ^b   Kirkali, Ziya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cryoablation; Laparoscopic; Percutaneous; Radiofrequency ablation; Renal tumors

Indexed keywords

CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CRYOABLATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TUMOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETREATMENT; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; URINOMA;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LAPAROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951620613     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2009.06.008     Document Type: Review

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