UNLABELLED Study Type - Therapy (systematic review). Level of Evidence 2b What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? The oncological success of partial nephrectomy in the treatment of small renal masses is well established. However, partial nephrectomy has largely supplanted the radical approach. In the last decade, laparoscopy has been adopted as the new surgical approach for th...

Zahra Jehan Iqbal, MD, Long Cao, MD, Karl Chiang, MD, Sundeep Adusumalli, MD, Farah Khalid, BA, Rajasekhar Nekkanti, MD From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Heath Sciences and Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, Department of Cardiology, Division of Heath Sciences and Brody School of Medicine East Carolina University, Greenville, Nort...

We report the case of a 59-year-old woman who presented with metastatic ameloblastoma involving the lungs, 20 years after resection of the primary tumor in the mandible. The lesions were debulked on multiple occasions with radiofrequency ablation over an eight-year period with local response. There were no complications related to the procedures. We suggest that radiofrequency ablation is a pos...

BACKGROUND Radiofrequency ablation has been established as a treatment method for malignancies and some particular cystic lesions, especially in adults. Experience with radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of hydatid cysts, especially in children, is limited. CASE REPORT Although echinococcosis is rare, especially in children, we describe a 7-year-old boy with lung and liver cystic echinoco...

OBJECTIVE To study a series of patients submitted to radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFA) of left accessory pathways (AP) using the transeptal approach (TSA) as compared to the conventional retrograde arterial approach (RAA). METHODS One hundred consecutive patients (56 male; mean age of 34.3 +/- 11 years) with 100 left APs (62 overt and 38 concealed) underwent catheter ablation using the T...

Radiofrequency ablation of superficial and perforator veins for venous insufficiency has emerged as a leading alternative to traditional vein stripping operations. This percutaneous technique can be performed in less than an hour using local anesthetic or sedation. The VNUS Closure catheters (VNUS Medical Technologies, San Jose, California) work by resistive heating in the vein wall that is con...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility of angled cool-tip electrode for radiofrequency ablation of small superficial subcapsular liver tumors abutting abdominal wall, in order to traverse normal liver parenchyma, and thereby, obtain favorable configuration of ablation margin. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, we retrospectively analyzed 15 small superficial subcapsular liver tumors abutting...