Preoperative cryoablation of a hypervascular bone metastasis: A case of effective devascularization before preoperative embolization.
Hypervascular metastasis
Image-guided cryoablation
Preoperative embolization
Journal
Clinical imaging
ISSN: 1873-4499
Titre abrégé: Clin Imaging
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8911831
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
Historique:
received:
16
12
2020
revised:
25
03
2021
accepted:
25
04
2021
pubmed:
6
5
2021
medline:
28
9
2021
entrez:
5
5
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Image-guided cryoablation has become a common approach for the palliative treatment of painful metastatic bone lesions, and indications for this procedure have expanded to include local control of bone metastases. We report a case in which cryoablation was performed on a large hypervascular renal cell carcinoma bone metastasis before surgical fixation of an impending fracture. In this case, cryoablation reduced the patient's pain but also appeared to result in devascularization of the tumor, thus obviating the need for preoperative embolization. This case raises the possibility that image-guided cryoablation may represent an alternative to preoperative embolization for vascular tumors while also serving a palliative function.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33951570
pii: S0899-7071(21)00192-3
doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2021.04.018
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
148-153Informations de copyright
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