Neurological deficit due to cement extravasation following a vertebral augmentation procedure

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-70

  Sidhu, Gursukhman S ^a   Kepler, Christopher K ^a   Savage, Katherine E ^a   Eachus, Benjamin ^a   Albert, Todd J ^a   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompression; Kyphoplasty; Neurological deficit; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CEMENT EXTRAVASATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDLINE; MYELOMA; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARAPLEGIA; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PERIPHERAL PARALYSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE ILEUS; RASH; SCIATICA; SEPSIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE CANCER; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TACHYPNEA; URINE INCONTINENCE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 84880063308     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.4.SPINE12978     Document Type: Article

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