Introduction: Ablatives techniques for destroying in situ a tumoral process aim tissular necrosis by the application of several physical principles.
Material and methods: We searched MEDLINE®, Embase®, using (MeSH) words; from January 2005 through May 2017, and we looked for all the studies. Investigators graded the strength of evidence in terms of methodology, language and relevance.
Results: Forty-seven articles were analyzed. We described ablative techniques and sorted them in thermal and non-thermal therapies according to the used physical principle and their frequency of use in the urological pathology.
Conclusion: Percutaneous ablative therapies are mini-invasive techniques, which have an important role in tumors focal treatment. This article is a review of the ablative therapies and describes their physical principles, their equipment and their recent technological modifications, which have been developed to improve the clinical success of these techniques.
Keywords: Ablative therapy; Brachytherapy; Cryotherapy; Cryothérapie; Curiethérapie; HIFU; Radiofrequency; Radiofréquence; Thérapie ablative.
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