Vertebral Body
Initial non-weight-bearing therapy is important for preventing vertebral body collapse in elderly patients with clinical vertebral fractures
... were vertebral fracture involving the posterior portion of the vertebral body at the thoraco-lumbar spine, mild neurological deficit, instability of the fracture site, severe pain, multiple ...
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Comparative Study of Percutaneous Vertebral Body Perforation and Vertebroplasty for the Treatment of Painful Vertebral Compression Fractures
... Percutaneous Vertebral Body Perforation (Perforation ...the vertebral body was ...the vertebral vein, and the efflux pattern of the contrast medium were then ...
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Increase in Vertebral Body Height after Vertebroplasty
... Under biplane fluoroscopic guidance (primarily lateral), the cement was injected alternatively through the left and right needles. The injection continued until the vertebral body was filled toward the ...
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Clinical Experience with High Viscosity Cements for Percutaneous Vertebral Body Augmentation: Occurrence, Degree, and Location of Cement Leakage Compared with Kyphoplasty
... kyphoplasty with KyphX, which involved creating space inside the fracture site via inflation of a bone tamp (balloon). This retrospective study included similar sample sizes between both groups and comparable patient ...
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Biomechanical analysis of a novel height-adjustable nano-hydroxyapatite/polyamide-66 vertebral body: a finite element study
... ideal vertebral body graft is highly recommended, and a num- ber of interbody graft types have been constructed includ- ing allografts, cement, metal, and synthetic materials [5– ...cial vertebral ...
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Changes in Spinal Canal Diameter and Vertebral Body Height with Age
... We compared demographic parameters (age, gender, height, weight, and BMI), and used PACS software and a PACS workstation (Centricity 2.0, GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI, USA) to measure the anterior-posterior (AP) ...
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Bone cement distribution in the vertebral body affects chances of recompression after percutaneous vertebroplasty treatment in elderly patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures
... the vertebral height, given there was adequate filling of the bone cement that provided sup- port, otherwise, the fracture may ...the vertebral body. It is important to ensure the anterior ...
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Hospital admissions and mortality in patients with COPD exacerbations and vertebral body compression fractures
... A total of 248 patients were admitted for ECOPD during the retrospective exploratory phase. A third of them had at least one VCF, mainly located in the dorsal spine and more precisely in the anterior portion of the ...
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Micro Finite Element models of the vertebral body: Validation of local displacement predictions
... culated tissue modulus equal to 4.6GPa was also determined as the best least square fit between predicted and experimental axial forces for the four specimens. The experimental axial force (ΔF) was computed as the ...
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Vertebroplasty: Cement Leakage into the Disc Increases the Risk of New Fracture of Adjacent Vertebral Body
... It is obvious that attempts should be made to re- duce the incidence and the amount of cement leakage into the disk during vertebroplasty. There are several ways this can be accomplished. Peh et al (11) sug- gested that ...
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Percutaneous polymethylmethacrylate vertebroplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral body compression fractures: technical aspects
... tebral body. Care must be taken not to abrogate the ante- rior vertebral wall or the ...the vertebral body ...the vertebral body (Fig ...
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Relationship of Schmorl's Nodes to Vertebral Body Endplate Fractures and Acute Endplate Disk Extrusions
... The initial MR examination of each patient showed either diffuse (n 5 6) or focal (n 5 8) concave abnormality or indentation of a vertebral endplate. On the MR images of the six patients with a diffuse endplate ...
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Cervical Vertebral Body Chordoma in a Cat
... surgery (Carminato et al., 2008). Despite there being no evidence of metastatic disease in the present case, the limited surgical accessibility and severe neurological clinical signs, due to local compression of the ...
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Cervical corpectomy for sub-axial retro-vertebral body lesions
... affected body was removed till reaching the posterior cortex of the body which was removed by the diamond piece exposing the pos- terior longitudinal ligament which was also removed to expose compressed ...
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MR imaging of spinal cord and vertebral body infarction
... After entering the spinal canal, these paired radicular arteries on each side of the vertebrae may ultimately divide into a triad of vessels: the posterior central and prelaminar arterie[r] ...
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A Mechano Regulation Model of Fracture Repair in Vertebral Bodies
... of vertebral fracture repair, where a multi-scale finite element model of a spinal segment was used to predict the magnitude of various biophysical stimuli acting in the callus surrounding regenerating ...a ...
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Spinal Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas
... that supplies the nerve root and meninges but not necessarily the spinal cord) enters a radicular vein, where the latter passes the dura at the dorsal surface of the dural root sleeve in the intervertebral foramen. 22 ...
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Patient Experience Following Kyphoplasty: Safety, Efficacy, and Patient Satisfaction
... The worldwide incidence of VCF is 1 in 3 women and 1 in 8 men over 50 years of age [1]. Osteoporosis is the most common condition associated with painful vertebral body compression fractures, resulting in ...
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A second puncture and injection technique for treating osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures
... the vertebral body to ...the vertebral body to col- lapse again [9, ...prevent vertebral recompression and im- prove the quality of life of ...
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Metric analysis of the lumbar region of human vertebral column
... in body height. In the old days, the average body height was 171 cm for men and ...overall vertebral robusticity decreased significantly over time, very likely affecting dimension of vertebral ...
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