Intracardiac foreign body (bone cement) after percutaneous vertebroplasty

Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-75

  Yang, Jun Ho ^a,b   Kim, Jong Woo ^a,b   Park, Hyun Oh ^a,b   Choi, Jun Young ^a,b   Jang, In Seok ^a,b   Lee, Chung Eun ^a,b  

^a Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bone cements; Foreign body; Percutaneous vertebroplasty; Pericardial effusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874977699     PISSN: 2233601X     EISSN: 20936516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5090/kjtcs.2013.46.1.72     Document Type: Article

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