ArticleJournal of radiology case reports2011
Investigation of polymethylmethacrylate pulmonary embolus in a patient ten years following vertebroplasty.
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- Cement leakage into the paravertebral venous system and pulmonary cement embolism following percutaneous vertebroplasty: a case report.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
- The significance of the best puncture side bone cement/vertebral volume ratio to prevent paravertebral vein leakage of bone cement during vertebroplasty: a retrospective study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- Bone cement embolism into the right heart.JTCVS techniques · 2022Article
- Correlation analysis of the puncture-side bone cement/vertebral body volume ratio and bone cement leakage in the paravertebral vein in vertebroplasty.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- Pulmonary Embolism from Cement Augmentation of the Vertebral Body.Asian spine journal · 2018Review
- Acrylic bone cement: current concept review.Musculoskeletal surgery · 2013Review
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Abstract
Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) is a procedure commonly used for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures, and the number of procedures has been steadily increasing over the past decade. We report a case of an 81 year old female with a history of breast cancer that developed two vertebral body compression fractures and was subsequently treated with PV. The patient developed a subsegmental pulmonary polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) embolus as a complication of the procedure. Ten years following the procedure, she remained asymptomatic with the PMMA embolus being discovered incidentally during workup for a suspected chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. In reviewing the case, we describe the typical presentation of a pulmonary PMMA embolus and consider methods to decrease the incidence of this complication.
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