TITLE:
Local Adjuvants in Surgical Management of Bone Lesions
AUTHORS:
Giulio Di Giacomo, Antonio Ziranu, Carlo Perisano, Andrea Piccioli, Giulio Maccauro
KEYWORDS:
Local Adjuvant, Bone Lesions, Orthopaedic Oncology, Cryotherapy
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Cancer Therapy,
Vol.6 No.6,
May
29,
2015
ABSTRACT: One of the most common methods for surgical treatment of bone
metastasis is curettage. Local adjuvants are used to improve the effect of
curettage in local cancer surgery and they may exerted their effects either
chemically either physically; in orthopaedic oncology the most common are
phenol, liquid nitrogen, laser, cement and argon beam coagulation. The purpose
of this article is to review the main characteristics of the most common
chemical and physical agents used in bone oncology, emphasizing the toxic
effects of some of them, especially phenol and liquid nitrogen.