Treatment options for localised renal cell carcinoma of the transplanted kidney

Table 1 Summary of conservative treatments of localised allograft renal cell carcinoma¹

	RFA	CA	MWA	HIFU	IRE	NSS
Ref.	Charboneau et al[107]	Shingleton et al[60]	Gul et al[63]	Chakera et al[77]	Gul[63]	Chambade et al[11]
	Baughman et al[108]	Cornelis et al[61]	Favi et al[69]	Di Candio et al[76]		Varotti et al[39]
	Roy et al[35]	Ploussard et al[62]				Tillou et al[42]
	Goeman et al[109]	Guleryuz et al[34]				Barama et al[47]
	Aron et al[106]	Gul et al[63]				Kaouk et al[41]
	Matevossian et al[110]					Mundel et al[122]
	Veltri et al[111]					Ribal et al[123]
	Sanchez et al[112]					Lamb et al[124]
	Elkentaoui et al[113]
	Olivani et al[114]
	Cornelis et al[61]
	Leveridge et al[115]
	Tillou et al[18]
	Swords et al[116]
	Végső et al[117]
	Su et al[118]
	Christensen et al[119]
	Hernández-Socorro et al[120]
	Guleryuz et al[34]
	Cool et al[121]
	Iezzi et al[48]
	Di Candio et al[76]
Patients (n)	70	11	5	3	1	61
Lesions (n)	78	11	5	3	1	63
FU (range)	3-71 mo	1-59 mo	8-61 mo	73-81 mo	34 mo	5-109 mo
RCC type
CC (n)	10	7	2	1	1	24
PA (n)	41	3	3	2	0	33
Other (n)	5	1	0	0	0	2
NA (n)	22	0	0	0	0	4
Size (range)	0.5-4.0 cm	1-4.1 cm	2.2-3.1 cm	0.8-5.5 cm	1.6 cm	0.9-7.0 cm
TNM2
T1aN0M0 (n)	78	10	5	2	1	60
T1bN0M0 (n)	0	1	0	1	0	3
PTF (n)	2	0	0	1	0	0
Relapse (n)	1	0	0	0	0	0
DSM (n)	0	0	0	0	0	0

¹Summaries based on individual cases should not considered as an estimate of the “real world”.

²American Joint Committee on Cancer Tumour Node Metastasis Staging System. RFA: Radiofrequency ablation; CA: Cryoablation; MWA: Microwave ablation; HIFU: High-intensity focused ultrasound; IRE: Irreversible electroporation; NSS: Nephron-sparing surgery; FU: Follow-up; RCC: Renal cell carcinoma; CC: Clear cell; PA: Papillary; NA: Not available; TNM: Tumour node metastasis; PTF: Primary treatment failure; DSM: Disease-specific mortality.