Recurrent pain after percutaneous vertebroplasty.
OBJECTIVE
The purposes of this review are to summarize the causes of recurrent pain after percutaneous vertebroplasty and to discuss the incidence, clinical symptoms, risk factors, image findings, treatment and prognosis, and prevention of such pain.


CONCLUSIONS
Percutaneous vertebroplasty is widely used to treat patients with symptomatic osteoporotic compression fractures. Although the procedure relieves the pain of the compression fracture, recurrent back pain after percutaneous vertebroplasty is common.
Lin
Chao-Chun
CC
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Shen
Wu-Chung
WC
Lo
Yu-Chien
YC
Liu
Yi-Jui
YJ
Yu
Tzai-Chiu
TC
Chen
Ing-Ho
IH
Chung
Hsiao-Wen
HW
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D054854:Vertebroplasty / Q000009:adverse effects*