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Percutaneous vertebroplasty: a novel treatment for acute vertebral fractures
Author(s) -
Diamond Terrence H,
Clark William A
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143341.x
Subject(s) - percutaneous vertebroplasty , medicine , osteoporosis , percutaneous , complication , surgery , bone cement , radiology , vertebral body , cement , archaeology , history
Acute vertebral fracture is a painful and debilitating complication of osteoporosis which has been extremely difficult to manage. Percutaneous vertebroplasty — injecting cement to stabilise the fractured end plate — represents a major management breakthrough. We report the first four patients with osteoporotic vertebral fractures treated by this technique at our hospital. They are, to our knowledge, among the first to be successfully treated in this way in Australia.