Systematic review of ablative therapy for the treatment of renal allograft neoplasms

Table 3 Summary of the overall outcomes of ablative therapy of kidney allograft neoplasms from the case reports and the case series examined¹

Variables	Range or number
Procedures	100
Patients	92
Interventional access
Percutaneous	81
Open	1
Laparoscopic	1
Transosseous	1
Not available	16
Guidance modality
US	31
CT	20
MRI	1
US and CT	19
Not available	29
Primary treatment failure	3
Secondary treatment failure	1
Recurrence	1
Disease-specific mortality	0
Overall renal allograft loss	5
Peri-operative complication	11
Urinary leakage	1
Post-infarction syndrome	1
Hematoma	2
Infection of the ablation site	2
Leg pain due to nerve injury	4
Leg pain due to muscle injury	1
Follow-up (mo)	1-81

¹Summaries based on individual cases should not be considered as an estimate of the “real world”. US: Ultrasound; CT: Computed tomography; MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging.