An early decrease in the mean glucose uptake was found in both soft and skeletal lesions after treatment with sorafenib. FDG-PET thus seems to be advantageous, compared with RECIST evaluation, which is limited to soft lesions.
Objectives: To present a patient material of renal angiomyolipoma (AML) with focus on the risk of bleeding during active surveillance (AS). Methods: Medical records, 1999-2014, were studied and 98 patients (80 female, 18 men) with renal AML were identified. Eleven patients had tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Mean age was 54 (13-89) years. Results: Sixty patients (61%) were asymptomatic at presentation, 33 (34%) presented with flank pain and five (5%) with hematuria. Retroperitoneal bleeding or hematuria was diagnosed in 20 patients with a mean AML size of 74 mm (25-200 mm). Twenty-one patients were treated with angioembolization at time of diagnosis and 25 had surgery. Forty-five patients with sporadic AML (mean size 34 mm) and six with TSC (mean size 120 mm) were selected for AS. Only one patient with sporadic AML (46 mm) had a bleeding, whereas two of the six TSC patients had bleedings from three kidneys (AML 70-300 mm). In 25 patients (49%), the AML-size increased with 2.7 mm/year in sporadic and 5.4 mm/ year in TSC-associated AML. Thirteen patients were treated with AE (including all six TSC-patients) and five with surgery in 22 kidneys due to AML-size in 16, bleeding in four and suspicion of cancer in two. Conclusion: Bleeding occurred in 20% of AML at presentation. In patients selected for AS, we found a very low risk of bleeding in sporadic AML justifying our cut off size of 50 mm to trigger intervention. In TSC-associated AML individually tailored follow-up is needed due to a higher intervention rate.
US guidance is feasible for RFA of small renal tumors. However, thorough long-term follow-up appears mandatory, as a substantial proportion of the patients will develop late local recurrence and will need more than one RFA treatment session. Large tumor diameter and volume and a low necrosis index were predictive indicators of incomplete ablation after the first treatment.
The use of combined US/CT guidance when performing renal RFA resulted in superior primary and short-term outcome compared to the use of US guidance alone in patients treated at the same institution.
The data support a true decrease in the incidence of RCC over time in Sweden with a migration towards lower tumour stages but no change in distribution between the different histological subtypes over time.
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