Therapeutic and Clinical Outcomes of Robot-assisted Partial Nephrectomy Cryoablation for T1 Renal Cell Carcinoma.

Journal: In vivo (Athens, Greece)
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: In cT1 renal cell carcinoma (RCC), very few studies have compared oncological outcomes and renal function preservation rates in nephron-sparing robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) and percutaneous cryoablation (PCA).

Authors

  • Toshihiro Uemura
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Taigo Kato
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; kato@uro.med.oaska-u.ac.jp.
  • Akira Nagahara
    Department of Urology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan.
  • Atsunari Kawashima
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Koji Hatano
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Takeshi Ujike
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Yusuke Ono
    Department of Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Hiroki Higashihara
    Department of Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Kazutoshi Fujita
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Shinichiro Fukuhara
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Hiroshi Kiuchi
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Ryoichi Imamura
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Noriyuki Tomiyama
    Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
  • Norio Nonomura
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  • Motohide Uemura
    Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.