Analysis of Radiofrequency Ablation of Small Renal Tumors in Patients at High Anesthetic and Surgical Risk: Urologist Experience with Follow-up Results in the Initial Six Months

Radiofrequency Ablation Treatment in Small Renal Masses

“…Recent progresses in imaging modalities and technological and technical developments have resulted in similar oncological and functional outcomes of Radiofrequency ablation therapy comparable with the surgical treatment of small renal cell carcinomas. Radiofrequency ablation therapy is an increasingly popular ablative treatment modality, which presents some advantages of lower surgical and anesthetically complication rates, shorter recovery time and hospital stay, no renal ischemia, and a curative, nephron sparing treatment choice to the patients who are not appropriate candidate for the surgery or do not prefer the surgical treatment [6].…”