Intradural cement leakage: A devastatingly rare complication of vertebroplasty

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Chen, Yen Jen ^a   Tan, Tai Sheng ^b   Chen, Wen Hsien ^b   Chen, Clayton Chi Chang ^b   Lee, Tu Sheng ^b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cement leakage; Complication; Percutaneous vertebroplasty; Polymethyl methacrylate

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRADURAL CEMENT LEAKAGE; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEEDLE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SPINE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA BODY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE CEMENTS; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33744785669     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000219495.57470.67     Document Type: Article

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