Current use of percutaneous ablation in renal tumors: an analysis of the registry of the German Society for Interventional Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the success and complications of thermal ablation (TA) based on the voluntary, prospective registry of the German Society for Interventional Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy (DeGIR) with 303 participating centers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Materials and methods

Registry data from 2018 until 2023 of 1102 patients with small renal tumors (age: 72.5 ± 11.6 years; female: 33.6%, 370/1102) were analyzed. Hospitals with ≥ 20 TAs were considered high-volume centers. Technical success and complication rates between different parameters were compared using the chi-square or Fisher's exact test, p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Results

Patients were most frequently treated with radiofrequency ablation (RFA, 43.6%, 481

SUBMITTER: Schaarschmidt BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11868359 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature