CT-guided radiofrequency ablation of a tibial osteoid osteoma in pregnancy
Prisca C Diala, Ilina Pluym, Nabia Khan, Joe Hong, Aisling Murphy, Varand Ghazikhanian, Simon Dadoun · 2026
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Description
Prisca C Diala and six colleagues report a 2026 case of a painful benign bone tumour treated during pregnancy. A 32-year-old woman at 34 weeks had severe night pain in her right leg. Scans showed an 8 millimetre osteoid osteoma in her shin bone, a small tumour that often responds to anti-inflammatory drugs.
Those drugs were not safe options late in pregnancy, and plain pain relief plus opioids gave little help. A team spanning radiology, maternal-fetal medicine, and anaesthesia used ultrasound and CT guidance to burn the tumour away with radiofrequency ablation, a needle-based heat treatment. Her pain resolved, the radiation dose stayed well within accepted limits for pregnancy, and she later delivered at term without problems.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Prisca C Diala, Ilina Pluym, Nabia Khan, Joe Hong, Aisling Murphy, Varand Ghazikhanian, Simon Dadoun |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17256 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |