Quality Assurance Guidelines for Percutaneous Vertebroplasty

• DOI: 10.1007/s00270-005-0146-5
• Publication Date: 2005-12-13T14:24:05Z
• Authors: Afshin Gangi; Tarun Sabharwal; Farah G. Irani; Xavier Buy; Jose P. Morales; Andreas Adam
• Keywords: Diagnostic Imaging; Time Factors; Quality Assurance, Health Care; Patient Selection; Bone Cements; Radiography, Interventional; 3. Good health; 03 medical and health sciences; Postoperative Complications; 0302 clinical medicine; Quality of Life; Humans; Spinal Fractures

Vertebral compression fracture is the reduction in individual vertebral body height by 20% or 4 mm [7]. PVP is a therapeutic, image-guided procedure that involves injection of radio-opaque cement into a partially collapsed vertebral body, in an effort to relieve pain and provide stability.