Sclerotic vertebral metastases: pain palliation using percutaneous image-guided cryoablation.

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Date publication

février 2011

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr GANGI Afshin


Tous les auteurs :
de Freitas RM, de Menezes MR, Cerri GG, Gangi A

Résumé

Cryoablative therapies have been proposed to palliate pain from soft-tissue or osteolytic bone tumors. A case of a patient with painful thoracic and sacral spine sclerotic metastases successfully treated by image-guided percutaneous cryoablation with the aid of insulation techniques and thermosensors is reported in this case report.

Référence

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2011 Feb;34 Suppl 2:S294-9