Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation of Painful Spinal Bone Metastases Performed under Local Anesthesia: Feasibility Regarding Patient's Experience and Pain Outcome.

To assess the pain relief of bipolar RFA combined or not with vertebroplasty in patients with painful vertebral metastases and to evaluate the feasibility and tolerance of the RFA procedure performed under local anesthesia. : 25 patients (18 men, 7 women, mean age: 60.X y.

Treatment of painful extraspinal bone metastases with percutaneous bipolar radiofrequency under local anesthesia: feasibility and efficacy in twenty-eight cases.

Purpose: To retrospectively assess the feasibility and efficacy of bipolar radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of extraspinal osseous neoplasms performed under local anesthesia.

Methods And Materials: Twenty-eight patients (21 males, 7 females; mean age, 61.2 years) underwent RFA under local anesthesia between 2005 and 2012.

Analgesic effects of microwave ablation of bone and soft tissue tumors under local anesthesia.

Objective: To assess the feasibility and efficacy of microwave ablation (MWA) of painful refractory bone and soft tissue tumors performed under local anesthesia.

Study Design: A retrospective study between 2011 and 2013.

Setting: A single center, Academic Interventional Pain Management Unit.