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Image-Guided Spine Tumor Ablation: Where Do We Stand?

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Minimally invasive percutaneous spine thermal ablation technologies, often combined with vertebral augmentation, have proven safe and effective in management of selected patients with spinal metastases. Special attention to procedure techniques including choice of ablation modality, thermal protection measures, adequacy of treatment, and post-ablation imaging is essential for improved patient outcomes.

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Anderanik Tomasian: None

Jack W. Jennings: Consulting Fee, Merit, Stryker, Medtronic, and BTG/Boston Scientific

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    Anderanik Tomasian

  2. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

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Tomasian, A., Jennings, J.W. (2021). Image-Guided Spine Tumor Ablation: Where Do We Stand?. In: Khan, M., Kushchayev, S.V., Faro, S.H. (eds) Image Guided Interventions of the Spine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80079-6_12

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