title: [Therapy of local prostatic carcinoma with high intensity focussed ultrasound (HIFU). Outcome and side-effects].
abstract: At the time of diagnosis, prostate cancer is organ confined in 70% of the cases. Of these patients, 25% undergo local therapy (surgery/radiation), and 75% risk disease progression by "watchful waiting" or systemic side effects through hormonal ablation. Local high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for minimal invasive tissue coagulation (85 degrees C) ablates prostatic tissue with high precision. Follow-up sextant biopsies (1.9) showed 80% of the patients to be cancer free. In those cases with residual cancer, the tumor mass was reduced by more than 90%. The PSA nadir in 97% was < 4 ng/ml, including 61% < 0.5 ng/ml. After primary HIFU, no severe side effects occurred (no fistula, no grade II/III incontinence, no rectal mucosa burn). As auxiliary treatments, all patients received a suprapubic tube (29 days), and 33% needed a transurethral debris resection (TUR 7 g). The patients were released from the hospital within 24 h after treatment. According to the short-term follow-up, transrectal HIFU enables minimal invasive local prostate tissue ablation with high rates of negative biopsies, low PSA nadir, and low complication rate.
authors.affiliation: Urologische Abteilung, Städtisches Krankenhaus, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus, Sanatoriumsplatz 2, 81545 München-Harlaching.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thüroff
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chaussy
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001706:Biopsy; D004867:Equipment Design; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011467:Prostate / Q000473:pathology; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D014464:Ultrasonic Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation*