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Kyphoplasty and Kyphoplasty-like Devices: Indications and Results
2013Kyphoplasty (KP) can be considered to be a development and evolution of vertebroplasty (VP). In fact, KP has been termed “balloon or mechanical- assisted VP”. The first KP was carried out in the USA in 1998 [1]. The procedure involves delivering cement in the form of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) or other types of cement into a fractured vertebral body
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Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty update
Current Osteoporosis Reports, 2008Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are minimally invasive vertebral augmentation procedures in which a filler material is percutaneously injected into a vertebral body for the treatment of vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis, malignant conditions, hemangiomas, and osteonecrosis. In vertebroplasty, the filler is injected directly into the bone,
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Criticality of kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty.
Aging clinical and experimental research, 2011Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty are minimally invasive techniques to treat vertebral compression fractures, now considered as implying relative risks and being equally effective. A few considerations must anyway be made due to some unresolved problems.
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