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01-05-2008 | Case Report

Percutaneous Cryoablation and Vertebroplasty: A Case Report

Authors: Salvatore Masala, Mario Roselli, Guglielmo Manenti, Matteo Mammucari, Dario Alberto Bartolucci, Giovanni Simonetti

Published in: CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology | Issue 3/2008

Abstract

A 70-year-old man with a painful vertebral metastasis was treated with combined percutaneous cryoablation and vertebroplasty therapy (CVT) in one session. The patient was suffering from diffuse visceral metastasized cholangiocarcinoma. After several weeks of back pain, magnetic resonance imaging documented a single L2 bone metastasis. In consultation with the oncologists, palliative combined CVT was administered with the aim of obtaining pain relief and bone stabilization. In our experience this combined treatment is safe and effective for immediate pain relief in painful bone metastases when other standard palliative treatments have failed.

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Title: Percutaneous Cryoablation and Vertebroplasty: A Case Report
Authors: Salvatore Masala
Mario Roselli
Guglielmo Manenti
Matteo Mammucari
Dario Alberto Bartolucci
Giovanni Simonetti
Publication date: 01-05-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology / Issue 3/2008
Print ISSN: 0174-1551
Electronic ISSN: 1432-086X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-007-9223-2

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Percutaneous Cryoablation and Vertebroplasty: A Case Report

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