Ablación percutánea por radiofrecuencia en osteoma osteoide del sacro

Abstract

The osteoma osteoid is a rare primary bone tumor that usually does not affect the spine. It occurs in adolescence as a common cause of painful scoliosis and can confuse the diagnosis with juvenile scoliosis and thus delay it. They have a frequency of presentation of 10% in the thoracolumbar spine, and the sacral location is of low occurrence. Radiography and computerized tomography are essential diagnostic tools to locate the lesion, determine the extension of the tumor, associated pathologies and define its relationship with adjacent vessels and nerves. The management of the osteoid osteoma is not limited to the pharmacological management of pain; it involves the process from the beginning of the symptomatology to surgery by subsequent instrumentation or current non-invasive methods such as percutaneous radiofrequency that offer excellent results.