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Percutaneous pedicle screw placement into a spinal segment previously treated with vertebroplasty: technical note
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Percutaneous pedicle screw placement into a spinal segment previously treated with vertebroplasty: technical note

Joanna E Gernsback and Michael Y Wang
Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, Vol.24(5), pp.786-791
2016-05
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3171/2015.9.SPINE15386
PMID: 26771370

Abstract

Lumbar Vertebrae - surgery Humans Spinal Fractures - surgery Fracture Fixation, Internal - methods Female Tomography, X-Ray Computed Treatment Outcome Aged Pedicle Screws Fractures, Compression - surgery Vertebroplasty - methods
Vertebral augmentation with cement has become a common procedure for the treatment of compression fractures, leading to a growing population who have had this procedure and are now in need of another spinal surgery. This technical note reports an undescribed method for placing pedicle screws through a previously cemented level.
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1 Clinical & Life Sciences
1.129 Back pain
1.129.1565 Vertebroplasty
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Clinical Neurology
Surgery
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