title: Posterior decompression and stabilization, and surgical vertebroplasty with the vertebral body stenting for metastatic vertebral and epidural cauda equina compression.
abstract: We present the technique of combined posterior decompression and spinal instrumentation, and surgical (open) vertebroplasty using a novel system called vertebral body stenting (VBS) during a single session in a patient with metastatic vertebral and epidural cauda equina compression.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Orthopaedics, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Andreas F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Mavrogenis
authors.forename: Elias C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Papadopoulos
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Starantzis
authors.forename: Demetrios S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Korres
authors.forename: Panayiotis J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Papagelopoulos
mesh_terms: D002420:Cauda Equina / Q000601:surgery*; D019299:Decompression, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D015607:Stents; D054854:Vertebroplasty / Q000379:methods*