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In Vivo, Percutaneous, Needle Based, Optical Coherence Tomography of Renal Masses
Published on: March 30, 2015
Small renal mass: report of one case and bibliographic review
Antonio Aguilar Ruiz1, Oscar Pozuelo, Manuel Castells
1Urology Department Hospital, Viladecans, Barcelona, Spain. 30067aar@comb.es
Objectives:
We present a new case of small renal mass in which monitoring was chosen, no surgical intervention, and review of literature about this.
Methods And Results:
We present a case of a female, 80 years of age, who was diagnosed of small renal mass (2 cms). We monitored the patient every 6 months through C.T. After more two years the renal mass is the same.
Conclusions:
In case of renal mass lower than 4 cm without local invasion we can choose the option of periodical monitoring with C.T. (6 monthly). It is important that the patient is assymptomatic. So therefore given the age (80 years), size of the tumor, and absence of symptoms, we can do monitoring without surgery.
