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A Smart Technique to Remove Ruptured Inflatable Bone Tamp From the Vertebral Body in Balloon Kyphoplasty

Accidental rupture of the inflatable bone tamp is a rare but possible complication during balloon kyphoplasty. We describe an easy and minimal invasive technique to remove this foreign body from fractured vertebra. A 62-year-old female patient with severe osteoporosis had a low energy trauma and sus...

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Autores principales: Papaioannou, Ioannis, Mousafeiris, Vasileios K, Pantazidou, Georgia, Repantis, Thomas, Korovessis, Panagiotis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8212910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34159012
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15106