Sacroplasty: a treatment for sacral insufficiency fractures.
Sacral insufficiency fracture is a debilitating injury for which no active treatment is currently available. We present three consecutive cases of elderly patients with sacral insufficiency fractures whose symptoms were relieved immediately by treatment of the fractures by polymethylmethacrylate injections, a so-called sacroplasty.
Pommersheim
William
W
Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
Huang-Hellinger
Frank
F
Baker
Michael
M
Morris
Pearse
P
D000368:Aged; D001843:Bone Cements / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D005471:Fluoroscopy; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007267:Injections; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000293:injuries; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D012447:Sacrum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*
D001843:Bone Cements; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate