How to Prevent Leaving "Needle Cast" or "Cement Tail" in Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty
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Nowadays, percutaneous vertebroplasty, or its evolution kyphoplasty, is a valid therapeutic option for the management of severe back pain, caused by vertebral compression fractures (1). They are minimally invasive, radiologically guided interventional procedures, which involve the injection of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) into the fractured vertebral body. The injection process was monitored continuously, under a fluoroscopic control in the lateral plane (2).
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