Publications by authors named "Yong-de Cheng"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of combining radiofrequency (RF) ablation and percutaneous osteoplasty (POP) in treating painful extraspinal bone metastases in 38 patients.
- Results showed a significant reduction in pain, with the average visual analog scale (VAS) score dropping from 7.1 before treatment to 1.3 after six months, and 92.1% of patients reported immediate pain relief.
- The procedure also improved patients' quality of life, as indicated by higher Karnofsky performance scale scores, with a low complication rate of 2.6% for major complications.
Object: The authors conducted a study to evaluate the advantages of a 3D volume-rendering technique (VRT) in follow-up digital subtraction (DS) angiography of coil-embolized intracranial aneurysms.
Methods: One hundred nine patients with 121 intracranial aneurysms underwent endovascular coil embolization and at least 1 follow-up DS angiography session at the authors' institution. Two neuroradiologists independently evaluated the conventional 2D DS angiograms, rotational angiograms, and 3D VRT images obtained at the interventional procedures and DS angiography follow-up.
Percutaneous osteoplasty (POP) as a technical extension of percutaneous vertebroplasty has been used as a treatment for osteolytic lesions in weight-bearing bones besides the vertebrae, and has demonstrated beneficial outcomes in terms of pain relief and functional improvement. However, its efficacy in non-weight-bearing bones is not well known. Herein, we present the case of a patient with an osteolytic lesion from multiple myeloma in the sternum, a non-weight-bearing bone, who obtained sustained pain relief and improvement of life quality after POP.
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