“…Accordingly, several authors are sceptical regarding RFA for spinal osteoid osteomas because of the potential neurologic risks [9,12,14,19,21] and therefore open resection is still the treatment of choice for lesions of the occipitocervical junction [3]. Nevertheless, radiofrequency ablation of a spinal osteoid osteoma has been primarily reported in 1998 [18] and in recent years several authors reported their experience [6,7,12,14,21,23]. Animal models of RFA have shown that it may be performed safely in the vertebral body but the temperature of the surrounding soft tissue depends on the thickness of the cortical bone lamella [1,7].…”