Digital Artery Aneurysm - Case Report.

Introduction And Methods: A 71-year-old patient, housewife, with a history of hypertension, elevated cholesterol and hypotyroidism was referred to the outpatient clinic for tumefaction of the right hand 5th finger noticed 3-4 months earlier. She denied past or recent history of trauma, cardiac or infectious disease and had no familial history of aneurysmatic disease. She was asymptomatic except for local slight discomfort when she had to press or push something with her hand.

[Percutaneous Image-guided cryoablation for localized bone plasmacytoma treatment].

Bone plasmacytoma (BP) occurs in most patients with multiple myeloma and is highly disabling. Radiotherapy is the primary treatment modality for BP and, although local control rates are excellent, several weeks are needed before the treatment is completed and for patients to note significant pain relief. Over the past decade, percutaneous image-guided cryoablation has emerged as a safe and effective alternative in the management of localized bone metastasis in solid tumours.

[Percutaneous laser disc decompression for lumbar discogenic radicular pain].

Purpose: The aim of our study was to directly evaluate the effectiveness of percutaneous laser disc decompression (PLDD) for treatment of lumbar discogenic radicular pain.

Materials And Methods: From June 2006 through July 2009, 205 patients with contained disc herniation demonstrated on computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance, concordance between the radicular pain and the nerve root compressed by the herniated disc, neurological findings referring to a single nerve root and no improvement after conservative therapy for a minimum of six weeks were enrolled. All patients were treated with PLDD under CT guidance and local anaesthesia.