Case Control Study
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World J Radiol. Apr 28, 2016; 8(4): 378-389
Published online Apr 28, 2016. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v8.i4.378
Preoperative embolization of primary bone tumors: A case control study
Roushan Jha, Raju Sharma, Shishir Rastogi, Shah Alam Khan, Arvind Jayaswal, Shivanand Gamanagatti
Roushan Jha, Raju Sharma, Shivanand Gamanagatti, Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
Shishir Rastogi, Shah Alam Khan, Arvind Jayaswal, Department of Orthopedics, All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
Author contributions: Jha R designed the research study; Sharma R helped with article design, literature search and article drafting; Rastogi S and Jayaswal A contributed to clinical perspective, revision of article and final approval; Khan SA contributed towards the article concept and revision; Gamanagatti S contributed equally to conception, critical revision and image preparation.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Informed consent statement: All study participants provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: Technical Appendix, images and data set available from the corresponding author at shiv223@gmail.com.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Shivanand Gamanagatti, Additional Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Room No 81-B, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India. shiv223@gmail.com
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Received: September 9, 2015
Peer-review started: September 12, 2015
First decision: October 8, 2015
Revised: December 24, 2015
Accepted: January 27, 2016
Article in press: January 29, 2016
Published online: April 28, 2016
Core Tip

Core tip: The current study shows that the preoperative embolisation of bone tumors performed 48 h prior to either limb salvage surgery or spinal stabilization leads to decrease in intraoperative blood loss and intraoperative blood transfusion volume. Therefore, would recommend that pre-operative embolisation is a safe procedure and should be used as part of the multi-disciplinary approach to the management of bone tumours in difficult anatomical locations especially those are known to be highly vascular.