Pulmonary cement embolism after percutaneous vertebroplasty in osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: Incidence, characteristics, and risk factors

Radiology

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 250-259

  Yeo, Ju Kim ^a   Joon, Woo Lee ^a   Kun, Woo Park ^a   Yeom, Jin Seob ^a   Hee, Sun Jeong ^b   Jeong, Mi Park ^c   Heung, Sik Kang ^a  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Gimpo Airport Wooridul Spine Hospital   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG CEMENT EMBOLISM; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPOROTIC VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURE; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY; RANK SUM TEST; RISK FACTOR; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; KOREA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINE FRACTURE; STATISTICS;

BONE CEMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE CEMENTS; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 64949160827     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2511080854     Document Type: Article

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