Posterior decompression and stabilization, and surgical vertebroplasty with the vertebral body stenting for metastatic vertebral and epidural cauda equina compression.
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.
Mavrogenis
Andreas F
AF
First Department of Orthopaedics, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece.
Papadopoulos
Elias C
EC
Starantzis
Konstantinos
K
Korres
Demetrios S
DS
Papagelopoulos
Panayiotis J
PJ
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*