Guidance
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on percutaneous cementoplasty for palliative treatment of bony malignancies.
Description
Percutaneous cementoplasty is the injection of acrylic bone cement into malignant or benign bone cavities in order to relieve pain and/or stabilise the bone.
Percutaneous cementoplasty may be performed under general anaesthetic or more commonly, using conscious sedation and local anaesthesia affecting the skin, subcutaneous tissue and the periosteum of the bone into which the needle will be introduced. Access to the bone is percutaneous.
Coding and clinical classification codes for this guidance.