New system for therapy of metastatic spinal tumors
Monday, July 11, 2011 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
A new system for the treatment of spinal tumors is a combination of radiofrequency ablation, which uses the heat energy of radio frequency waves to ablate and destroy tumors, and subsequent kyphoplasty, by which the spine is stabilized through the injection of bone cement as filler material. A recently started single-center study involving 10 evaluable patients suffering from painful metastatic spinal tumors is now expected to provide information about the efficacy of this method.