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Percutaneous Radio Frequency Ablation for Painful Skeletal Metastases

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Patients with skeletal metastatic disease often have inadequate pain relief and conventional treatments, including external beam radiation therapy and opioid analgesics, often fail to provide pain relief and when relief is obtained, the duration is often short. Side effects of conventional therapies may also markedly decrease their quality of life, and few options are available for pain relief in patients with painful bone metastases who fail standard treatments. Image-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of focal painful metastases has emerged as an effective focal treatment for patients with painful metastatic disease. This treatment offers clinically significant reduction of pain, an improvement in their quality of life and reduction in the use of analgesic medications by these patients.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Matthew Callstrom

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  1. The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

    Damian E. Dupuy

  2. Department of Surgery and Radiology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Yuman Fong

  3. McMullen Consulting, LLC, Surprise, Arizona, USA

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Callstrom, M. (2013). Percutaneous Radio Frequency Ablation for Painful Skeletal Metastases. In: Dupuy, D., Fong, Y., McMullen, W. (eds) Image-Guided Cancer Therapy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0751-6_44

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