Severa complicación neurológica tras vertebroplastia percutánea
- Ramos Galea, Rafael
- Paredes Herrero, Elena
- Calero Aguilar, Hermógenes
- Sánchez López, J. M.
- García Alonso, Manuel Francisco
ISSN: 0304-5056
Year of publication: 2002
Volume: 37
Issue: 210
Pages: 89-93
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista española de cirugía osteoarticular
Abstract
The technique of percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporotic fractures and spine tumors was develop an important increase because there were a lot of publications with good results and low rate of complications. This fact was done a fast developing of instruments and new PMMA cements to simplify this technique and decreased the rate of complications. In our opinion the percutaneous vertebroplasty is a high demand technique and have a high potential of major neurological complications if it is not performed with use of appropriate safeguards, but the purpose of this article is not to condemn the technique because we have had a good results using it in this pathologies and the majority of publications have shown a high rate of excellent results.