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EMS Mag
September 2008
Platte Valley Ambulance Service, Brighton, CO, USA.
Orv Hetil
November 2002
Genfi Egyetemi Kórház, Neuroradiológiai Osztály, Genf, Svájc.
Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) is a radiologically guided therapeutic procedure, which consists of percutaneous injection of a liquid polymer (bone cement) into a destroyed vertebral body. PVP was invented in 1984, in France, first for treating vertebral body haemangioma. Since its introduction the indications have been expanded progressively and today PVP is indicated mainly for treatment of vertebral haemangioma, malignant vertebral tumor and osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture.
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