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Anterior Spinal Column Augmentation Techniques

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With the aging population, osteoporotic compression fractures have become increasingly common throughout the United States. Many of these patients are not suitable for open surgery, but suffer from substantial pain. It has been found that through the injection of polymethylmethacrylate cement into these fracture sites (vertebroplasty), pain can be alleviated quickly and easily with little recovery time by the patient and low rates of complications. Since the development of vertebroplasty, many other augmentation techniques, including balloon-assisted peek implant-assisted techniques, have been invented. Along with new techniques, new indications for augmentation have come about both in tumor and trauma domains. In this chapter, the expanded indications and techniques involved in vertebral augmentation will be described.

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    Ian K. White MD, Eric Potts MD & Jean-Pierre Mobasser MD

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White, I.K., Potts, E., Mobasser, JP. (2017). Anterior Spinal Column Augmentation Techniques. In: Holly, L., Anderson, P. (eds) Essentials of Spinal Stabilization . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59713-3_18

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