Thermal ablation of the small renal mass: Case selection using the R.E.N.A.L.-nephrometry Score

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1292-1297

  Reyes, Jose ^a   Canter, Daniel ^a   Putnam, Samuel ^a   Simhan, Jay ^a   Smaldone, Marc C ^a   Kutikov, Alexander ^a   Viterbo, Rosalia ^a   Chen, David Y T ^a   Uzzo, Robert G ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryoablation; Kidney cancer; Radiofrequency ablation; Thermal ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MALE; NEPHROMETRY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THERMAL ABLATION; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CRYOABLATION; KIDNEY CANCER; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THERMAL ABLATION;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CREATININE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84884675840     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: 18732496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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