Life-threatening hematuria requiring transcatheter embolization following radiofrequency ablation of renal cell carcinoma.
Radiofrequency ablation is increasingly being acknowledged as a valid treatment for renal cell carcinoma in patients in whom definitive curative resection is deemed either undesirable or unsafe. A number of published series have shown the technique to have encouraging results and relatively low complication rates. In this article, we report a case of delayed life-threatening hematuria requiring transcatheter embolization of a bleeding intrarenal artery in a patient who had undergone imaging-guided radiofrequency ablation of a 3 cm renal cell carcinoma. To our knowledge, such a complication has not been reported previously.
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Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Marlborough Street, Bristol, BS2 8HW, UK.
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D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006417:Hematuria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed