OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this article is to review the follow-up strategies used after treatment or for active surveillance of renal cell cancer and to describe the normal posttreatment findings and the distribution and the signs of relapsed disease.
CONCLUSION: Imaging follow-up protocols should be tailored according to the clinical scenario. Further experience is necessary to better refine imaging strategies, especially regarding follow-up of patients after thermal ablation or antiangiogenic therapy and those being maintained on active surveillance.
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Patel U, Sokhi H. Are you the author?
Department of Radiology, St. George's Hospital, London, UK.
Reference: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2012 Jun;198(6):1266-76.
doi: 10.2214/AJR.11.8381
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22623538
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