title: Cement embolus trapped in the inferior vena cava filter during percutaneous vertebroplasty.
abstract: A 58-year-old female patient, diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the lung, underwent percutaneous vertebroplasty at the L4 vertebral body due to painful spinal metastases. Because of deep venous thrombosis of the left femoral and iliac veins, an inferior vena cava filter had been placed before vertebroplasty. Bone cement migrated into the venous bloodstream and then was being trapped within the previously placed filter. This case illustrates that caval filter could capture the bone cement and prevent it from migrating to the pulmonary circulation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Interventional Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China.
authors.forename: Zhi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Rui-fang
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ming-ming
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary; D001843:Bone Cements / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004617:Embolism / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007084:Iliac Vein; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000517:prevention & control; D011859:Radiography; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D016306:Vena Cava Filters; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D054854:Vertebroplasty / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D001843:Bone Cements
keywords: Complication; Inferior vena cava filter; Percutaneous vertebroplasty; Pulmonary embolism