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- Fig 1.
Anteroposterior and lateral plain radiographs during vertebroplasty at L3 show the tip of the 11-gauge cannula in the ventral aspect of the midline of the vertebral body. Barium-opacified cement fills a small ventral cleft and a small portion of the right lateral aspect of the vertebral body, with a small amount of extravasation through the superior endplate.
- Fig 2.
A, Sagittal T2-weighted MR imaging of the lumbar spine shows severe fractures at T12 and L2 with fluid-filled clefts. B, lateral plain radiographs after vertebroplasty show cement-filled clefts corresponding with clefts seen on preprocedure MR imaging shown in A.
- Fig 3.
A, Sagittal T2-weighted MR imaging shows severe fracture at T8 without evidence of a cleft. B and C, Anteroposterior and lateral plain radiographs after vertebroplasty show cement filling a linear cleft.
- Fig 4.
A, Sagittal T2-weighted image shows small cleft within the severe fracture at T12. B, Lateral plain radiograph after vertebroplasty shows filling of a large cleft.
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Pain relief after vertebroplasty procedure
Worse No Change Decreased Completely Improved Pain at rest Postoperative (11) 0 1 6 4 1 week (11) 1 1 5 4 1 month (9) 0 1 3 5 6 months (6) 0 0 2 4 Pain with activity Postoperative (11) 0 0 7 4 1 week (11) 0 0 8 3 1 month (9) 0 0 6 3 6 months (6) 0 0 5 1 Note:—Numbers in parentheses indicate number of patients available at each follow-up time point, and numbers in each column indicate severity of pain on the basis of a semiquantitative pain scale (0–10).
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