• Skeletal radiology · Mar 2009

    Case Reports

    Percutaneous osteoplasty for painful sternal lesion from multiple myeloma.

    • Bing Zhou, Chun-Gen Wu, Ming-Hua Li, Yi-Feng Gu, and Yong-De Cheng.
    • Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Shanghai 6th People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, No. 600, Yi Shan Road, Shanghai 200233, China. zbing8888@163.com
    • Skeletal Radiol. 2009 Mar 1;38(3):281-5.

    AbstractPercutaneous 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. These data suggest that POP may be an alternative treatment for osteolytic lesions in non-weight-bearing bones.

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