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https://repository.monashhealth.org/monashhealthjspui/handle/1/38534| Title: | Percutaneous Sacroplasty for Painful Bone Metastases: A Case Report. | Authors: | Franco M. ;Poon P. ;Runacres F.;Goldschlager T. ;Yoong J.;Chandra R.V.;William L. | Institution: | (Yoong, William, Franco, Runacres, Poon) Supportive and Palliative Care Unit, Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (Yoong, Chandra, William, Franco, Goldschlager, Runacres, Poon) Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (Yoong) Northern Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (Chandra) Interventional Neuroradiology Unit, Monash Imaging, Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (William) Eastern Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (Goldschlager) Department of Neurosurgery, Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (Runacres) Calvary Health Care Bethlehem, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (Poon) Eastern Palliative Care, Melbourne, VIC, Australia | Issue Date: | 23-Sep-2017 | Copyright year: | 2017 | Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing Inc. (E-mail: subscrip@blackwellpub.com) | Place of publication: | United States | Publication information: | Pain Practice. 17 (7) (pp 945-951), 2017. Date of Publication: September 2017. | Journal: | Pain Practice | Abstract: | Introduction: The occurrence of bone metastases is common in patients with advanced cancer. The literature supports percutaneous vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty as minimally invasive procedures to relieve pain and improve quality of life for selected patients with disabling pain from pathological vertebral fractures secondary to bone metastases. Case: We describe a case of a 71-year-old patient with castrate-resistant metastatic prostate cancer who underwent sacroplasty for painful sacral metastases. The patient had previously been treated with maximally tolerated analgesics and anticancer therapies including systemic anticancer treatments and local radiotherapy. After sacroplasty, he experienced significant pain reduction and improvement in mobility and function. Conclusion(s): This case and recent literature demonstrate positive outcomes of sacroplasty in terms of pain reduction and improved mobility. Further research is warranted to establish the role of such minimally invasive percutaneous procedures for pain management in cancer patients.Copyright © 2016 World Institute of Pain | DOI: | http://monash.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/papr.12538 | PubMed URL: | 27910200 [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=27910200] | ISSN: | 1530-7085 | URI: | https://repository.monashhealth.org/monashhealthjspui/handle/1/38534 | Type: | Article | Type of Clinical Study or Trial: | Case series or case report |
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