Context Palliative care continues to be a rapidly growing field aimed at improving quality of
life for patients and their caregivers. Objectives The purpose of this review was to provide a …

Percutaneous imaging-guided cryoablation (PICA) is a recently developed technique, which
applies extreme hypothermia to destroy tumours under close imaging surveillance. It is …

Introduction: Percutaneous image-guided cryo-(CA) and radiofrequency-(RFA) ablations
have been widely used in the treatment of painful bone metastases (BM). However, paucity …

Objective To review the efficacy of percutaneous thermal ablation (TA) of bone metastases
(radiofrequency ablation [RFA], microwave ablation [MWA], cryoablation [CA], and MR …

The role of the interventional radiology (IR) in the musculoskeletal system, and in particular
in the bone, is a field of knowledge that is growing significantly in the last years with …

Interventional radiology provides local management of bone metastases (BM) with a
palliative intent in most cases, or with a curative intent in selected patients. Its role has …

Purpose To perform a systematic review of technical details and clinical outcomes of
percutaneous extra-spinal cementoplasty in patients with malignant lesions. Materials and …

Injectable biomaterials, including bulk materials and particulate materials, can be delivered
in a minimally invasive way and may provide alternative treatment options for conditions that …

Interventional radiology has known an exponential growth in the last years. Technological
advances of the last decades, have made it possible to use new treatments on a larger …

Metastases are the main type of malignancy involving bone, which is the third most frequent
site of metastatic carcinoma, after lung and liver. Skeletal-related events such as intractable …