Successful salvage using percutaneous vertebroplasty in cancer patients with painful spinal metastases or osteoporotic compression fractures.
case_series · Level IV
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Abstract
Percutaneous vertebroplasty significantly improved pain, mobility and quality of life in cancer patients with bone metastases who failed radiation or with osteoporotic compression fractures. The serious complication is relatively rare.
Medical subject headings
- Bone Cements
- Fractures, Spontaneous
- Osteoporosis
- Palliative Care
- Polymethyl Methacrylate
- Spinal Fractures
- Spinal Neoplasms