Observational studyEuropean radiology2014
Percutaneous long bone cementoplasty of the limbs: experience with fifty-one non-surgical patients.
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- Minimally Invasive Treatment Strategies for Metastatic Disease of the Skeleton: Current Concepts.Current oncology reports · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of RF ablation and cementoplasty in enhancing functional capacity in pelvic malignant bone metastases.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2024Article
- Interventional Radiology in the Management of Metastases and Bone Tumors.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Recent advances in the local antibiotics delivery systems for management of osteomyelitis.Drug delivery · 2021Review
- Bone cement as a local chemotherapeutic drug delivery carrier in orthopedic oncology: A review.Journal of bone oncology · 2021Review
- Ablation Techniques in Cancer Pain.Cancer treatment and research · 2021Article
- Musculoskeletal interventional oncology: current and future practices.The British journal of radiology · 2020Review
- Percutaneous consolidation of bone metastases: strategies and techniques.Insights into imaging · 2019Review
- Biomechanical effects of osteoplasty with or without Kirschner wire augmentation on long bone diaphyses undergoing bending stress: implications for percutaneous imaging-guided consolidation in cancer patients.European radiology experimental · 2019Article
- Evaluation of short-term efficacy of extraspinal cementoplasty for bone metastasis: A monocenter study of 31 patients.Journal of bone oncology · 2018Article
- Image-Guided Bone Consolidation in Oncology.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2018Review
- [Metastatic disease in long bones : Review of surgical treatment options].Der Unfallchirurg · 2018Review
- Percutaneous low-pressure bone stenting to control cement deposition in extensive lytic lesions.European radiology · 2017Observational
- Reinforced cementoplasty using dedicated spindles in the management of unstable malignant lesions of the cervicotrochanteric region.European radiology · 2017Article
- Metastatic bone disease from breast cancer: a review of minimally invasive techniques for diagnosis and treatment.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2017Review
- Comparison of percutaneous long bone cementoplasty with or without embedding a cement-filled catheter for painful long bone metastases with impending fracture.European radiology · 2017Article
- Percutaneous cementoplasty for painful osteolytic distal femur metastases: a case report.Journal of pain research · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo review our 10-year experience with percutaneous long bone cementoplasty (PLBC) in poor surgical patients. MATERIALS AND
methodsFifty-one patients were included. Primary endpoints were pain and functional outcomes one month following PLBC. A secondary endpoint dealt with factors predicting cement leakage. Delayed adverse events and overall survival (OS) were also investigated.
resultsSixty-six lesions were treated. Local pain relief at 1-month occurred in 59/66 lesions (89.4%); pain improvement was significantly more common for lesions of the upper limb (p < 0.05). Limb functionality at one month improved in 46/64 lesions (71.8%); lesions ≤ 3 cm showed better outcomes in terms of limb function (p <0.05). Cement leakage was minor and asymptomatic in 26 cases (26/66, 39.4 %); in one case (1/66, 1.5%) symptomatic minor amount of intra-articular cement leakage occurred. Factors predicting cement leakage were diaphyseal location of the lesions, cortical bone disruption and extra-bone tumour extension (p < 0.05). The most common delayed adverse event was fracture (6/66, 9.1%). OS at 1-, 2- and 3-years was 61.2%, 30.9% and 23.0%, respectively.
conclusionsFor poor surgical candidates, at 1-month follow-up, PLBC proved to be safe and effective. If stress fracture occurs following PLBC, surgical external fixation is still an affordable therapeutic option. KEY POINTS: Percutaneous long bone cementoplasty may be proposed to poor surgical patients. Pain palliation is more significant for lesions of the upper limb. Limb function improves significantly for lesions sized ≤ 3 cm. Fracture is the most common delayed adverse event (9% of cases). If cement stress fracture occurs, surgical external fixation is still feasible.
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