A Unilateral Vertebroplasty Approach Using a Curved Injection Cannula for Directed, Site-specific Vertebral Body Filling
Received 4 April 2008; received in revised form 17 December 2008; accepted 5 January 2009. published online 26 February 2009.
The present report describes the use of a curved, coaxial infusion cannula that can be applied to facilitate targeted multifocal vertebral body cement injection during vertebroplasty from a single access site. Two representative cases are presented that illustrate the ability of targeted cement deposition and flexible site selection with this technique.
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street Southwest, Rochester, MN 55905
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