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 in | Journal of radiology case reports Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 17 - 20 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
United States
EduRad
01.03.2009
EduRad Publishing |
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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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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1943-0922 1943-0922 |
DOI: | 10.3941/jrcr.v3i3.108 |