Published in:
01-04-2006 | CIRSE GUIDELINES
Quality Assurance Guidelines for Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
Authors:
Afshin Gangi, Tarun Sabharwal, Farah G. Irani, Xavier Buy, Jose P. Morales, Andreas Adam
Published in:
CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology
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Issue 2/2006
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Excerpt
Vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is an important cause of severe debilitating back pain, adversely affecting quality of life, physical function, psychosocial performance, mental health and survival [
1,
2]. Its diverse etiology encompasses osteoporosis, neoplastic vertebral involvement (myeloma, metastasis, lymphoma, hemangioma), and osteonecrosis. There are more than 700,000 osteoporotic VCFs per year in the United States [
3], but there are no published data available as to the incidence of VCFs in the European Union. …