CONCLUSION:

Our experience at University Hospital supports the reported success rate of greater than 90%, which is equivalent to surgical excision (10,11). A recent study demonstrates an overall cost saving in comparison to surgical management (12). Non-anesthetic complication rates are minimal. Post-procedural pain is generally treatable with oral medication and patients may resume normal activity almost immediately after the procedure (13). Experience shows that RF ablation is an effective, safe and relatively simple procedure for the treatment of osteoid osteoma tumors and it may become the procedure of choice in the surgical treatment of these lesions.