Central stentoplasty: technique for unipedicular single midline vertebral body stent implantation.
Vertebral body stenting, or stentoplasty, is a novel percutaneous option in spinal cement augmentation. Conventional stentoplasty requires insertion of two paramedian stents per vertebral body through a bipedicular approach. We developed an unipedicular approach in which we implant a single stent into the midline of the vertebral body using cone-beam CT guidance and hereby describe the technical details and feasibility, in this technique that we termed "central stentoplasty."
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308433, Singapore, druei@yahoo.com.
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001706:Biopsy; D054893:Cone-Beam Computed Tomography; D005260:Female; D050815:Fractures, Compression / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary; D015607:Stents; D054854:Vertebroplasty / Q000379:methods*