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Cryotherapy for renal cell carcinoma and angiomyolipoma
M G Delworth1, L L Pisters, B D Fornage
1Department of Urology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA.
The Journal of Urology
|January 1, 1996
Abstract
Purpose:
We determined the feasibility of renal cryotherapy in humans.
Materials And Methods:
Two patients with tumors in a solitary kidney were treated with renal cryotherapy.
Results:
Both patients tolerated renal cryotherapy well with no change in renal function and no postoperative complications.
Conclusions:
Cryoablation of select renal lesions can be performed safely with minimal loss of renal function.