Clinical Study

Single High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Session as a Whole Gland Primary Treatment for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: 10-Year Outcomes

Table 2

Intraoperative and postoperative results with high intensity focused ultrasound.

Anesthesia used
 Spinal anesthesia109
 General anesthesia1
Ablatherm device
 EDAP-Technomed Ablatherm59
 Ablatherm Integrated Imaging51
Preoperative complications0
Concomitant TURP, (%)
 Yes79 (71.8)
 No31 (28.2)
Hospital stays in days, median (range)4 (2–7)
Catheterization time in days, median (range)6 (2–30)
Postoperative prostatic volume in mL, median (range)14 (6–22)
Time to PSA nadir in weeks, mean (range)16.3 ± 8.2 (4–46)
PSA nadir in ng/mL, mean (range)0.55 ± 1.34 (0–8.29)
 PSA < 0.5 ng/mL, (%)72 (65.5)
 PSA 0.5–1 ng/mL, (%)17 (15.5)
 PSA 1–4 ng/mL, (%)19 (17.2)
 PSA > 4 ng/mL, (%)2 (1.8)
Follow-up in months, median (range)94 (13–139)
Lost to follow-up, (%)2 (1.8)