Renal mass biopsy and thermal ablation: should biopsy be performed before or during the ablation procedure?
- 9 February 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Abdominal Radiology
- Vol. 42 (6) , 1773-1780
Abstract
To determine if renal mass biopsy should be performed before or during the ablation procedure with emphasis on complications and rate of ablation for renal cell carcinomas (RCC), benign tumors, and small renal masses without a histologic diagnosis.Keywords
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