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Effect of radiofrequency ablation of renal tumors on renal function in patients with a solitary kidney.

Syvanthong C, Wile GE, Zagoria RJ

Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect on renal function of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of renal tumors in patients with a solitary kidney. CONCLUSION: Ablation resulted in complete tumor eradication, and there were no serious complications. Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of renal tumors resulted in a 16% increase in serum creatinine concentration and a 13% decrease in creatinine clearance in patients with one kidney. These results are comparable with those of surgical resection of tumors in this group of patients.

Published 22 May 2007 in AJR Am J Roentgenol, 188(6): 1619-21.
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