Percutaneous vertebroplasty and spinal cord compression: a case report

Authors

  • Ilaria Morghen
  • Massimo Borrelli
  • Andrea Saletti
  • Roberto Zoppellari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3941/jrcr.v3i3.108

Keywords:

percutaneous vertebroplasty, vertebral metastasis, spinal cord compression

Abstract

This report describes a 60-year-old woman with intensive back pain due to metastatic vertebral body collapse, who underwent  percutaneous vertebroplasty. Subsequently, the patient developed metastatic  lesion extrusion into the  spinal canal because of pressure of the cement, with compression of the left anterolateral spinal cord. During percutaneous vertebroplasty procedure in patient with malignant tumors, the complication rate increases owing to the risk of leakage of cement resulting from the vertebral body destruction, but as also seen in our case, for the extrusion of the neoplastic tissue  and increase of the pressure in the vertebral body due to the introduction of the cement.

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Published

2009-03-01

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Section

Neuroradiology