Percutaneous Cryotherapy for Treatment of Chondroblastoma: Early Experience.
Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol
; 42(2): 304-307, 2019 Feb.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30327928
ABSTRACT
Surgical curettage is currently the standard of care for the chondroblastoma, but in peri-articular tumors it is limited by its morbidity. In this preliminary report, we evaluate the feasibility of percutaneous cryotherapy as an alternative ablative treatment for chondroblastoma. Three patients with a chondroblastoma treated by CT scan-guided cryotherapy are presented in this article. Pain permanently disappeared 2 days after the procedure. No local tumor recurrence or cartilage damage was observed by MRI performed 1 year after the intervention. This preliminary case report suggests that percutaneous cryotherapy may be a possible alternative to the current standard of care in chondroblastoma. Further studies are needed to evaluate if this technique offers similar anti-tumoral efficacy while providing better pain relief and less morbidity than curettage.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Bone Neoplasms
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Chondroblastoma
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Cryotherapy
Type of study:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Year:
2019
Type:
Article