The Surgical Treatment of Pelvic Bone Metastases

Table 6

Overview for reported results in minimally invasive techniques.

Technique	Author	Year	Patients	Follow-up	Complications	Effect
Ethanol therapy	Gangi et al. [30]	1994	25	2 weeks	none	Complete pain relief in 16%
						Partial pain relief in 75%
Laser-induced thermotherapy	Groenemeyer et al. [31]	2002	3	3 months	none	45% pain reduction
Cryoablation	Callstrom et al. [33]	2006	14	6 months	none	Pain relief in 100%
Radiofrequency ablation	Goetz et al. [35]	2004	43	16 weeks	1 skin burn	Pain relief in 95%
					1 transient bowel and bladder
					incontinence (metastasis of sacrum)
					1 fracture of acetabulum
Acetabuloplasty	Cotten et al. [36]	1995	18	7 months	Recurrent pain	Pain relief in 81%
					fever/inflammatory processes
	Marcy et al. [40]	2000	18	4.6 months	1 acetabular fracture	Pain relief in 81%
	Hierholzer et al. [41]	2003	5	—	None	Pain relief in 100%
	Kelekis et al. [42]	2005	14	—	1 intraarticular leakage	Pain relief in 92%
					1 leakage near pudendal nerve
	Maccauro et al. [38]	2008	25	6 months	2 venous injection of cement	Complete pain relief in 59%
						Partial pain relief in 49%