Spinal Tumor Ablation: Indications, Techniques, and Clinical Management

Percutaneous thermal ablation has proven to be safe and effective in the management of patients with spinal tumors. Such treatment is currently proposed following the decision of a multidisciplinary tumor board to patients with small painful benign tumors such as osteoid osteoma or osteoblastoma, as well as carefully selected patients presenting with spinal metastases. In both scenarios, in order to provide a clinically effective procedure, ablation is often tailored to the specific patients ’ clinical needs and features of the target tumor.

Source: Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology - June 7, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Roberto Luigi Cazzato, Pierre Auloge, Pierre De Marini, Emanuele Boatta, Guillaume Koch, Danoob Dalili, Pramod Prabhakar Rao, Julien Garnon, Afshin Gangi Source Type: research