Successful salvage using percutaneous vertebroplasty in cancer patients with painful spinal metastases or osteoporotic compression fractures

Edward Chow; Lori Holden; Cyril Danjoux; Albert Yee; Marjan Vidmar; Ruth Connolly; Joel Finkelstein; Gordon Cheung

doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2004.01.003

Successful salvage using percutaneous vertebroplasty in cancer patients with painful spinal metastases or osteoporotic compression fractures

Radiother Oncol. 2004 Mar;70(3):265-7. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2004.01.003.

Authors

Edward Chow¹, Lori Holden, Cyril Danjoux, Albert Yee, Marjan Vidmar, Ruth Connolly, Joel Finkelstein, Gordon Cheung

Affiliation

¹ Bone Metastases Clinic, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5.

PMID: 15064011
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2004.01.003

Abstract

Percutaneous vertebroplasty significantly improved pain, mobility and quality of life in cancer patients with bone metastases who failed radiation or with osteoporotic compression fractures. The serious complication is relatively rare.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Bone Cements / therapeutic use*
Female
Fractures, Spontaneous / etiology
Fractures, Spontaneous / therapy*
Humans
Injections
Male
Middle Aged
Osteoporosis / complications*
Pain
Palliative Care*
Polymethyl Methacrylate / administration & dosage*
Quality of Life
Salvage Therapy
Spinal Fractures / etiology
Spinal Fractures / therapy*
Spinal Neoplasms / complications
Spinal Neoplasms / secondary*

Substances

Bone Cements
Polymethyl Methacrylate