Percutaneous vertebroplasty and spinal cord compression: a case report

This report describes a 60-year-old woman with intensive back pain due to metastatic vertebral body collapse, who underwent percutaneous vertebroplasty. Subsequently, the patient developed metastatic lesion extrusion into the spinal canal because of pressure of the cement, with compression of the le...

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Published inJournal of radiology case reports Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 17 - 20
Main Authors Morghen, Ilaria, Borrelli, Massimo, Saletti, Andrea, Zoppellari, Roberto
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States EduRad 01.03.2009
EduRad Publishing
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Neuroradiology
percutaneous vertebroplasty, vertebral metastasis, spinal cord compression
spinal cord compression
vertebral metastasis
Percutaneous vertebroplasty
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Summary:This report describes a 60-year-old woman with intensive back pain due to metastatic vertebral body collapse, who underwent percutaneous vertebroplasty. Subsequently, the patient developed metastatic lesion extrusion into the spinal canal because of pressure of the cement, with compression of the left anterolateral spinal cord. During percutaneous vertebroplasty procedure in patient with malignant tumors, the complication rate increases owing to the risk of leakage of cement resulting from the vertebral body destruction, but as also seen in our case, for the extrusion of the neoplastic tissue and increase of the pressure in the vertebral body due to the introduction of the cement.
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ISSN:1943-0922
1943-0922
DOI:10.3941/jrcr.v3i3.108