Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are similar medical spinal procedures where bone cement is injected through a small hole in the skin (percutaneously) into a fractured vertebra with the goal of relieving the pain of vertebral compression fractures (VCF). Vertebroplasty was found to be ineffective in treating compression fracture of the spine by each of the only two randomized trials done to study the procedure that used a sham procedure for the control group.
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