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Percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty for the correction of spinal deformity in painful vertebral body compression fractures.

D. Theodorou, S. Theodorou, Timothy D. Duncan, S. Garfin, W. Wong

2002Clinical Imaging

DOI: 10.1016/s0899-7071(01)00350-3

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Percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty is a novel technique, which involves the introduction of inflatable bone tamps into the fractured vertebral body for elevation of the endplates, prior to fixation of the fracture with bone cement.

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THEODOROU, D., et al. Percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty for the correction of spinal deformity in painful vertebral body compression fractures. Clinical Imaging, 2002, 26 1: 1–5.