Kyphoplasty Technique for Thoraco-Lumbar Compression Fracture

Osteoporotic Lumbar Compression Fracture in Patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis Treated with Kyphoplasty

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory disease primarily affecting the spine. Osteoporosis can be a complication of AS and associated with low bone mineral density. As well, spinal fractures in the AS are usually unstable and may cause neurologic deficit at the mainly cervical region with low energy trauma. However, reports of lumbar compression fracture in AS are very rare. Thus, we re...

Unilateral Transpedicular Balloon Kyphoplasty for the Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fracture

Osteoporotic Vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs) constitute a major health care problem in western countries, not only because of the high incidence of these lesions but also due to their direct and indirect negative consequences for patient health-related quality of life and the costs to the health care system. Compression fractures lead to a loss of height of the vertebral segment, and th...

Pedicle Screw Fixation in Fracture of Thoraco-lumbar Spine

Kyphoplasty for vertebral compression fracture via a uni-pedicular approach.

BACKGROUND Percutaneous kyphoplasty using a bone expander polymer device, such as percutaneous vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty, is a therapeutic intervention for painful osteoporotic vertebral body compression fractures. Typically the procedure involves placement of bilateral Sky Bone Expanders in the fractured vertebral body via a transpedicular approach. We describe performance of "SKy...

Kyphoplasty for the treatment of an atypical osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture of the lumbar spine: A case report

Vertebral augmentation is a minimally invasive but sometimes technically challenging intervention typically reserved for the treatment of older patients with painful vertebral compression fractures due to osteoporosis or neoplasms. We report the successful treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures of the first lumbar vertebral body (L1) using kyphoplasty in a paraplegic young pa...