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Thermal Ablation for the Treatment of Abdominal Tumors
Published on: March 7, 2011
Interventional magnetic resonance image-guided percutaneous cryoablation of renal tumors
Patrick E Sewell1, Jeffrey C Howard, W Bruce Shingleton
1Department of Radiology, Division of Urology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA.
Southern Medical Journal
|August 28, 2003
Abstract:
We describe the first two cases of percutaneous cryoablation under magnetic resonance imaging guidance. To date, this minimally invasive procedure has been used for the treatment of renal cell tumors in patients who cannot tolerate or refuse surgical nephrectomy. The two patients described showed no evidence of recurrence or complications 35 and 36 months after the procedure.
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