Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a safe and minimally invasive procedure for the local treatment of solid renal tumors in selected patients, but sometimes complications can occur. Nontarget ureteral thermal injury is a known risk of the procedure. Herein, we report a case of a patient who underwent a simultaneous treatment of surgical sigma resection and percutaneous RFA of the inferior pole renal lesion and who developed a proximal ureteric lesion secondary to thermal injury, with urinary leakage and an abscess formation of ileo psoas muscle. This report describes a successful management of the interventional radiologist team with a rendezvous procedure of these complications after RFA procedure. © 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

Ureteral leakage after radiofrequency ablation in a renal tumor: Repair with rendezvous technique

Fontana F.;
2010-01-01

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Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a safe and minimally invasive procedure for the local treatment of solid renal tumors in selected patients, but sometimes complications can occur. Nontarget ureteral thermal injury is a known risk of the procedure. Herein, we report a case of a patient who underwent a simultaneous treatment of surgical sigma resection and percutaneous RFA of the inferior pole renal lesion and who developed a proximal ureteric lesion secondary to thermal injury, with urinary leakage and an abscess formation of ileo psoas muscle. This report describes a successful management of the interventional radiologist team with a rendezvous procedure of these complications after RFA procedure. © 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
2010
Nephrostomy; Pyelography; Tumor
Carrafiello, G.; Fontana, F.; Mangini, M.; Cotta, E.; Agnello, D.; Bracchi, E.; Recaldini, C.; Lumia, D.; Fugazzola, C.
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