Percutaneous vertebroplasty: treatment of painful XXXX with intraosseous vacuum phenomena.

@entity1 @entity4625 @entity170 @entity3814 @entity158
OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to determine the efficacy of percutaneous vertebroplasty in treating @entity1 with @entity158 of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae that contain intraosseous vacuum phenomena. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Nineteen cases of painful @entity3814 with intraosseous phenomena occurring in 18 @entity1 (six @entity1 , 12 @entity1 ; age range, 59-88 years; mean age, 75.5 years) were identified from 393 percutaneous vertebroplasties performed in 199 @entity1 during 32 and a half months. All @entity1 had @entity170 , with severe vertebral compression to less than one third of the vertebral body height in 13 of 19 cases. Affected levels were T6 (n = 1), T8 (n = 2), T9 (n = 1), T11 (n = 1), T12 (n = 4), L1 (n = 5), L2 (n = 2), L3 (n = 1), L4 (n = 1), and L5 (n = 1). All cases had the typical intravertebral body vacuum cleft appearance on radiographs. Imaging and clinical features were analyzed. RESULTS: The mean volume of @entity4625 injected was 7.43 mL (range, 4.0-15.0 mL). Typically, the @entity4625 filled the intravertebral vacuum cleft. Complications during radiography consisted of minimal @entity4625 leakage into the adjacent disk (15/19 cases) and the paravertebral soft tissues (8/19 cases). No complications required surgical intervention. At clinical follow-up, @entity158 relief was complete in eight @entity1 (44.4%), partial in six @entity1 (33.3%), and unchanged in four @entity1 (22.2%). CONCLUSION: Percutaneous vertebroplasty is effective in the treatment of @entity1 with painful @entity3814 with intraosseous vacuum phenomena.
