Cryoablation of sternal metastases for pain palliation and local tumor control.

Purpose: To determine safety and effectiveness of cryoablation of sternal metastases for pain palliation and local tumor control.

Materials And Methods: A tumor ablation database was retrospectively reviewed for sternal cryoablation procedures performed between January 2005 and June 2013, which yielded 15 procedures to treat 12 sternal metastases in 12 patients (five men). Median patient age was 57 years (range, 38-80 y).

Ultrasound-guided transhepatic radiofrequency ablation of renal tumors: a safe and effective approach.

Purpose: This study was designed to determine the feasibility and safety of ultrasound-guided transhepatic radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of masses in the right kidney.

Methods: Between June 2001 and December 2011, 18 patients who underwent transhepatic renal RFA procedures to treat 19 tumors were retrospectively identified. Complications (Clavien-Dindo classification system) and local tumor control were evaluated for all patients.

Percutaneous renal cryoablation after partial nephrectomy: technical feasibility, complications and outcomes.

Purpose: Treatment of locally recurrent or de novo tumors in the ipsilateral kidney after partial nephrectomy represents a management dilemma. Percutaneous renal cryoablation offers a minimally invasive treatment option in such cases. We review our single institution experience with percutaneous cryoablation of renal tumors after partial nephrectomy for technical feasibility, complications and outcomes.