Abstract
Chapter deals with a group of minimally invasive percutaneous procedures (vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, sacroplasty). The principle of these methods is a local application of polymethylmethacrylate bone cement to the pathologic area in the axial skeleton.
The introduction describes the development of these methods with reference to literature, evaluating their effectiveness. Next part of the chapter describes the indications and the contraindications of these methods, it also summarises the demanded preoperative examination.
The last part of the chapter focuses on the own procedure and defines its possible complications. The added pictorial part shows some examples of pathology indicated to the procedure and also the periprocedural documentation.
There is also depicted one example of the procedural complication.