Cement salvage of instrumentation-associated vertebral fractures.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Spinal instrumentation plays a key role in the treatment of spinal instability in patients with metastatic tumors. Poor bone quality, radiation, and diffuse osseous tumor involvement present significant challenges to spinal stabilization with instrumentation and occasionally result in postinstrumentation compression fractures. Vertebral cement augmentation has been effective in the treatment of painful tumor-related compression fractures. Our objective was to describe cement augmentation options in the treatment of vertebral compression fractures associated with spinal instrumentation in patients with metastatic tumors.

Materials and methods

Patients who underwent percutaneous vertebral cement augmentation in the treatment of instrumentation-associated

SUBMITTER: Xu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7965171 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature