Spontaneous migration of a polymethylmethacrylate mass after vertebroplasty in osteoporotic lumbar compression fracture with avascular osteonecrosis: A case report

Joint Bone Spine

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 98-99

  Cho, Sung Min ^a   Heo, Dong Hwa ^a   Cho, Yong Jun ^a  

^a Hallym University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Avascular necrosis; Polymethylmethacrylate; Spinal fracture; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

AGED; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE BIOPSY; BONE DENSITOMETRY; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE CULTURE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; OSTEONECROSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; POLYMETHACRYLIC ACIDS; SPINAL FRACTURES; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 78651078116     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2010.08.016     Document Type: Letter

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