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Percutaneous interventions have significantly changed the palliative and at times curative management of many spinal ailments. The ability to accurately and percutaneously attain tissue sampling of nearly any location avoids the need for open excision, assists with diagnosis and staging, and allows appropriate treatment planning. The ability to stabilize and increase the height of fractured vertebrae, thermally destroy intraosseous tumors, and preoperatively or permanently embolize hypervascular tumors has notably improved patient quality of life and surgical outcomes. In this chapter, we discuss the varied approaches, efficacy data, and evolving techniques related to these interventions.

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Madassery, S., Arslan, B., Tabriz, D.M. (2020). Percutaneous Modalities. In: Singh, K., Colman, M. (eds) Surgical Spinal Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50722-0_17

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