Prediction of Complications Following Partial Nephrectomy: Implications for Ablative Techniques Candidates

Current guidelines recommend local tumour ablation (LTA) over partial nephrectomy (PN) in nonsurgical candidates; however, objective definitions of these candidates are lacking.To identify specific patients who would benefit from LTA more than PN.A population-based assessment was performed of 2476 patients in the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results-Medicare database who had cT1a kidney cancer treated with either LTA or PN, between 2000 and...