CASE REPORT
Minimally Invasive Percutaneous Treatment for Osteoid Osteoma of The Spine. A Case Report
Giuseppe Mariniello1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2020Volume: 14
First Page: 41
Last Page: 45
Publisher ID: TONEUJ-14-41
DOI: 10.2174/1874205X02014010041
Article History:
Received Date: 24/02/2020Revision Received Date: 05/06/2020
Acceptance Date: 15/06/2020
Electronic publication date: 27/07/2020
Collection year: 2020
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Osteoid osteomas are benign but painful bone-forming tumors usually involving long bones, with localization at the spine in 10-20% of the cases. The most common symptom is back pain responding to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, but in some cases, also radicular pain can be present. For years, surgical excision has been considered the best choice of treatment for cases with unresponsive pain and has been practiced with a high percentage of success but also a high rate of fusion with instrumentation. In the last years, percutaneous radiofrequency ablation has been proposed as a new mini-invasive technique for the treatment of osteoid osteomas.