title: Review of Percutaneous Kyphoplasty in China.
abstract: METHODS
  Review article.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The article mainly reviewed the development and current situation of percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) in China, aiming to introduce native efforts and progress for PKP procedure on the exploring road.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Since PKP was first reported in China in 2002, Chinese orthopedic researchers have performed lots of clinical applications and studies on the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture, spinal metastatic tumor, hemangioma, myeloma, vertebral nonunion, and so on.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reviewed the papers on PKP published by native researchers in English and Chinese via Pubmed, EMBASE, the Scopus database, and a series of Chinese databases including Wanfang Data, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and the China Science and Technology Journal Database. The large sample capacity researches, convictive systematic analysis, and overviews were mainly elected as convictive evidence to describe the overall situation of clinical outcomes, complications, and the various technical aspects used to improve conventional surgical management and clinical applications of PKP in China.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Until October 2015, 211 articles in English and 2352 studies in Chinese about PKP were reported by 1443 Chinese institutions from 22 provinces around China. More than 50976 patients reported through published articles have received the treatment of PKP. With the technique gradually improved, including puncture, bone cement infusion, vertebral expander instruments, diagnosis, and treatment of special type of vertebral fractures, PKP is performed with the better efficacy and less complication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With the progression of minimally invasive spinal surgery around the world, PKP in China has been performed with a trend towards a rapid, safe, and effective treatment. Digital, real-time and artificial intelligence are the directions of future development of PKP.
  
  
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authors.affiliation: Departments and Institutions, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
authors.forename: Huilin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Shenghao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Kailun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu