Pyogenic Spondylitis after Vertebroplasty - A Report of Two Cases -

Vertebroplasty is now extensively used worldwide for thoracic and lumbar osteoporotic compression fractures. Although percutaneous vertebroplasty is considered a minimally invasive procedure, it may result in several complications. In this report, we present two patients where pyogenic spondylitis d...

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Autores principales: Lee, Chang Bum, Kim, Hyung Sup, Kim, Yong Jin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Spine Surgery 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2857481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20411134
http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2007.1.2.106
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description Vertebroplasty is now extensively used worldwide for thoracic and lumbar osteoporotic compression fractures. Although percutaneous vertebroplasty is considered a minimally invasive procedure, it may result in several complications. In this report, we present two patients where pyogenic spondylitis developed after vertebroplasty surgery was required. The serious nature of these infections, surgical management and complication avoidance are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-28574812010-04-21 Pyogenic Spondylitis after Vertebroplasty - A Report of Two Cases - Lee, Chang Bum Kim, Hyung Sup Kim, Yong Jin Asian Spine J Case Report Vertebroplasty is now extensively used worldwide for thoracic and lumbar osteoporotic compression fractures. Although percutaneous vertebroplasty is considered a minimally invasive procedure, it may result in several complications. In this report, we present two patients where pyogenic spondylitis developed after vertebroplasty surgery was required. The serious nature of these infections, surgical management and complication avoidance are discussed. Korean Society of Spine Surgery 2007-12 2007-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2857481/ /pubmed/20411134 http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2007.1.2.106 Text en Copyright © 2007 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), Which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pyogenic Spondylitis after Vertebroplasty - A Report of Two Cases -
title Pyogenic Spondylitis after Vertebroplasty - A Report of Two Cases -
title_full Pyogenic Spondylitis after Vertebroplasty - A Report of Two Cases -
title_fullStr Pyogenic Spondylitis after Vertebroplasty - A Report of Two Cases -
title_full_unstemmed Pyogenic Spondylitis after Vertebroplasty - A Report of Two Cases -
title_short Pyogenic Spondylitis after Vertebroplasty - A Report of Two Cases -
title_sort pyogenic spondylitis after vertebroplasty - a report of two cases -
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2857481/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2007.1.2.106
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