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Posterior decompression and stabilization, and surgical vertebroplasty with the vertebral body stenting for metastatic vertebral and epidural cauda equina compression
Author(s) -
Mavrogenis Andreas F.,
Papadopoulos Elias C.,
Starantzis Konstantinos,
Korres Demetrios S.,
Papagelopoulos Panayiotis J.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.21472
Subject(s) - medicine , decompression , cauda equina syndrome , cauda equina , vertebral body , surgery , surgical decompression , compression (physics) , radiology , spinal cord , materials science , psychiatry , composite material
We present the technique of combined posterior decompression and spinal instrumentation, and surgical (open) vertebroplasty using a novel system called vertebral body stenting (VBS) during a single session in a patient with metastatic vertebral and epidural cauda equina compression. J. Surg. Oncol. 2010; 101:253–258. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.