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Percutaneous Spinal Tumor Management

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Percutaneous thermal ablation has proven to be safe and effective in the management of spinal tumors. It is a treatment currently proposed with curative intent to patients with small painful benign tumors (e.g. osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma), or in few selected patients with malignant tumors; and with palliative intent in most patients presenting with symptomatic malignant spinal tumors. In both scenarios, following the decision of a multidisciplinary tumor board, ablation is often tailored to the specific clinical needs of the patient and the features of the target tumor. In malignant cases, vertebral augmentation is often proposed in combination with thermal treatments in order to provide better symptom relief and prevention of secondary vertebral collapse.

In this chapter, we review the most common clinical scenarios in which spine ablation can be performed, various ablation techniques, and their expected outcomes.

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Cazzato, R.L. et al. (2021). Percutaneous Spinal Tumor Management. In: Khan, M., Kushchayev, S.V., Faro, S.H. (eds) Image Guided Interventions of the Spine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80079-6_15

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