Increasing pedicle screw anchoring in the osteoporotic spine by cement injection through the implant: Technical note and report of three cases

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 366-369

  Fransen, Patrick ^a,b  

^a Brussels Operational Centre   (Belgium)

^b Clinique du Parc Leopold   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Lumbar fusion; Osteoporosis; Pedicle screw; Polymethylmethacrylate

Indexed keywords

CEMENT; CORTISONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TILIDINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CASE REPORT; CLAUDICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION; GAIT DISORDER; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPESTHESIA; IMPLANT; INJECTION; ISCHIALGIA; KYPHOPLASTY; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PEDICLE SCREW; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUBERCULOSIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; BONE CEMENTS; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 34748828574     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/SPI-07/09/366     Document Type: Article

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