Figure 1: Postoperative lateral chest X-ray showing the excellent alignment following short fixation, a chest tube to drain a pleural effusion, the cement leakage (arrow) and the vertebral reinforcement material (asterisk). The mechanism of the embolism was probably a vascular entry of cement during high pressure inflation to get the compressed vertebral separated. Figure 2: CT image: we can ob...

A clinical case of surgical treatment a female patient with dumbbell schwannoma growing from the T4 nerve root and aggressive hemangioma vertebral body arch is presented. The open kyphoplasty through posterior approach was performed followed by laminectomy, costotransversectomy at T4–T5 level on left, total microsurgical resection tumor right extrapleural approach, transpedicular fixation T3–T5...