Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty of the backbone

Abstract

In a series of 106 patients treated in the period from 2005 to 2008 by vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, indications and applications of the two new metods of treatment of osteopathic deformities and vertebral body fractures have been specified.

Keywords

• osteopathic vertebral deformity
• pathologic fracture of vertebral body
• kyphoplasty vertebroplasty