title: Selective arterial embolization in the treatment of lesions of the musculoskeletal apparatus.
abstract: The authors describe 42 cases of lesions of the musculoskeletal apparatus (traumatic, pseudoneoplastic or tumorous) in which selective arterial transcatheter percutaneous embolization (SAE) was indicated. In 3 patients SAE was not performed because the angiography had shown it to be too dangerous for the spinal cord. Out of 39 patients 2 were embolized in order to stop unrestrainable hemorrhaging (1 post-traumatic and 1 post-bioptic), 7 in order to reduce intraoperative bleeding, while in 7 cases (aneurysmal bone cyst, angioma of bone) the aim was curative. In the remaining 23 patients SAE was performed for adjuvant (8) or palliative (15) purposes in association with radio-and/or chemotherapy (11). In these last 15 cases the clinical results obtained were good in 67% of the cases, with partial or total regression of pain. Healing was obtained in 100% of the patients treated for curative purposes.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Ortopedica I dell'Università e Centro Tumori dell'Apparato Locomotore, Bologna.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boriani
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Cristofaro
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ruggieri
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Biagini
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ricci
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roversi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Campanacci
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D010166:Palliative Care; D011859:Radiography