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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023

Percutaneous Vertebral Reconstruction (PVR) Technique of Pathological Compression Fractures: An Innovative Combined Treatment of Microwave Ablation, Bilateral Expandable Titanium SpineJack Implants Followed by Vertebroplasty.

Claudio Pusceddu, Salvatore Marsico, Daniele Derudas, Nicola Ballicu, Luca Melis, Stefano Zedda, Carlo de Felice, Alessandro Calabrese, Davide De Francesco, Massimo Venturini and 2 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Incidence and predictors of residual back pain after percutaneous vertebral augmentation in osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture: a systematic review and meta analysis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025
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  3. The safety and efficacy of combined microwave ablation and percutaneous vertebral augmentation for spinal metastasis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence in the last 6 years.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Claudio PuscedduDepartment of Oncological and Interventional Radiology, Businco Hospital, 09121 Cagliari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3029-990X
Salvatore MarsicoDepartment of Radiology, Hospital del Mar, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9252-3623
Daniele DerudasDepartment of Hematology, Businco Hospital, 09121 Cagliari, Italy.
Nicola BallicuDepartment of Oncological and Interventional Radiology, Businco Hospital, 09121 Cagliari, Italy.
Luca MelisNuclear Medicine Department, Businco Hospital, 09121 Cagliari, Italy.
Stefano ZeddaDepartment of Oncological and Interventional Radiology, Businco Hospital, 09121 Cagliari, Italy.
Carlo de FeliceDepartment of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 105, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Alessandro CalabreseDepartment of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 105, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Davide De FrancescoDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Massimo VenturiniDiagnostic and Interventional Radiology Department, Circolo Hospital, ASST Sette Laghi, 21100 Varese, Italy.
Domiziana SantucciDepartment of Radiology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 200, 00128 Roma, Italy.
Eliodoro FaiellaDepartment of Radiology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 200, 00128 Roma, Italy.
Campus Bio Medico University Hospital · ITPoliclinico Umberto I · ITHospital Del Mar · ESStanford University · USUniversity of Insubria · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: to retrospectively evaluate safety and efficacy of combined microwave ablation (MWA) and bilateral expandable titanium SpineJack (SJ) implants followed by vertebroplasty (VP) for the treatment of painful thoracolumbar pathological vertebral compression fracture. (2) Methods: from July 2017 to October 2022, twenty-eight patients (13 women and 15 men; mean age 68 ± 11 years) with a history of primary neoplasm and thirty-six painful vertebral metastases with vertebral compression fracture underwent combined MWA and bilateral expandable titanium SpineJack implants with vertebroplasty. We analyzed safety through complications rate, and efficacy through vertebral height restoration and pain decrease, evaluated using a visual analogue scale (VAS), and Functional Mobility Scale (FMS), and local tumor control. Contrast-enhanced CT scans were performed at 1, 3, and 6 months and a contrast-enhanced spine MRI at 6 months after the procedure. (3) Results: Technical success rate was 100%. No procedure-related major complications or death occurred. Vertebral height restoration was observed in 22 levels (58%), with a mean anterior height restoration of 2.6 mm ± 0.6 and a mean middle height restoration of 4.4 mm ± 0.6 (

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expandable titanium SpineJack implantsinterventional radiologymicrowave ablationpercutaneous therapiesspine metastases

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