title: Percutaneous vertebroplasty and spinal cord compression: a case report.
abstract: This report describes a 60-year-old woman with intensive back pain due to metastatic vertebral body collapse, who underwent percutaneous vertebroplasty. Subsequently, the patient developed metastatic lesion extrusion into the spinal canal because of pressure of the cement, with compression of the left anterolateral spinal cord. During percutaneous vertebroplasty procedure in patient with malignant tumors, the complication rate increases owing to the risk of leakage of cement resulting from the vertebral body destruction, but as also seen in our case, for the extrusion of the neoplastic tissue and increase of the pressure in the vertebral body due to the introduction of the cement.
authors.affiliation: Anesthesiology and Critical Care Department, S.Anna University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy.
authors.forename: Ilaria
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Morghen
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borrelli
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saletti
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zoppellari