Quality Improvement Guidelines for Bone Tumour Management

Different image-guided percutaneous techniques can be used for treatment or pain palliation in patients with primary or secondary bone tumours. Curative ablation can be applied for the treatment of specific benign or in selected cases of malignant localized bone tumours [ 1 ]. Pain palliation therapy of primary and secondary bone tumours [ 2 , 3 ] can be achieved with safe, fast, effective, and tolerable percutaneous methods [ 4 ]. Ablation (chemical, thermal, mechanical), cavitation (radiofrequency ionization), and consolidation (cementoplasty) techniques can be used separately or in combination. Each technique has its indications as well as its own advantages and drawbacks.