Table 1.

Published studies reporting on different consolidative techniques in long bones

First author [reference]	Journal	Year	Number of patients	Target bone	Type of intervention	Secondary fractures (%)
Cazzato [8]	Eur Radiol	2014	51	Long bones	Osteoplasty	9.1
Premat [9]	Eur Radiol	2017	18	Proximal femur	Spindles + osteoplasty	0
Kelekis [10]	CVIR	2016	12	Long bones	25–50 stainless steel micro-needles + osteoplasty	0
Liu [11]	Eur Radiol	2016	36	Long bones	Osteoplasty (19 patients)	26.3
					Osteoplasty + cement-filled catheter in the medullary canal (17 patients)	0
Tian [12]	CVIR	2014	40	Proximal femur	Osteoplasty (19 patients)	23.8
					Osteoplasty + internal fixation with bone trocars stylets (21 patients)	0
He [13]	JVIR	2014	6	Proximal femur	Osteoplasty + internal fixation (bone trocars stylets)	0
Cazzato [14]	Eur J Radiol	2017	11	Proximal femur	Osteosynthesis	0
Lin [15]	Surg Oncol	2015	12	Proximal femur	Osteosynthesis with modified hollow-perforated screws and osteoplasty	8.3
Cornelis [16]	J Orthop Surg Res	2017	10	Proximal femur	Y-STRUT® device	10
Kim [17]	Surg Oncol	2011	15	Humerus	Ender nail fixation and osteoplasty	NR
Kim [18]	Surg Oncol	2014	15	Femur and tibia	Flexible nailing and osteoplasty	NR