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From: Risk factor analysis of pulmonary cement embolism during percutaneous vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures

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A 72-year-old woman was hospitalized complaining of severe back pain after falling down 2 weeks before admission. Preoperative thoracic lateral X-ray showed T7 vertebral compression fracture (a). Sagittal MRI (fat-suppressed T2-weighted images) showed that T7 was old fracture, while T8 was new osteoporotic compression fracture (b). Intraoperative thoracic lateral fluoroscopy showed that bone cement spilled into the anterior paravertebral vessels (c). Postoperative pulmonary CT found the pulmonary cement emboli of right inferior lung lobe (d)

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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

ISSN: 1749-799X