Fukuoka igaku zasshi = Hukuoka acta medica
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Fukuoka Igaku Zasshi · Apr 2005
Case ReportsPercutaneous vertebroplasty in the treatment of pain caused by metastatic tumor.
Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a radiologically guided therapeutic procedure that consists of percutaneous injection of polymethylmetacrylate (PMMA) into pathologic vertebral bodies. It is a minimally invasive procedure that is effective in the treatment of pain resulting from bone metastasis. This procedure has the advantage of providing rapid pain relief and spinal stabilization. ⋯ Despite treatment with analgesic agents, external beam radiation therapy, radioiodine therapy, and posterior fusion surgery, the pain reemerged and progressed. After percutaneous vertebroplasty, definite pain relief was achieved. Vertebroplasty would be useful as an additional or alternative pain relief method in patients with metastatic vertebral tumors.