Late onset sciatalgia as a rare complication of percutaneous vertebroplasty; a case report.
Nowadays percutaneous vertebroplasty is commonly used for vertebral osteoporotic compression fractures. This technique is also useful for other lytic vertebral lesions including hemangioma. Although cement leakage is the most common technical complication, its clinical prevalence is rare and the presentation is always acute. Hereby, we reported a case of vertebral hamangioma in a 14-year-old girl treated by this technique and presented with late onset sciatalgia. According to our knowledge, such a late neurologic presentation has not been reported so far.
Omidi-Kashani
Farzad
F
Department of Orthopedic, Ghaem Hospital, Orthopedic Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. omidif@mums.ac.ir
Ebrahimzadeh
Mohamadhosein
M
Peivandy
Mohamadtaghi
M