Role of vertebroplasty in osteoporotic compression fracture
Journal Title: International Archives of Integrated Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 10
Abstract
Majority of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture present with back pain and some of them with spinal deformity. Percutaneous vertebroplasty not only addresses pain relief but also the correction of spinal deformity with least post-operative morbidity. 72 patients with osteoporotic compression fracture and spinal deformity with chronic invalidating pain treated with percutaneous vertebroplasty were followed for 2.8 years with an average of 1.3 years.47% showed excellent,13% showed good and 40% showed fair result on vas score. There was good improvement in stature in 43%, fair in 40% and 17% showed no improvement.
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Suryakant Purohit, Himanshu Jain, Sonal Garg, Nitin Kumar Singh
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