Sacroplasty: a treatment for sacral insufficiency fractures

William Pommersheim; Frank Huang-Hellinger; Michael Baker; Pearse Morris

Sacroplasty: a treatment for sacral insufficiency fractures

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2003 May;24(5):1003-7.

Authors

William Pommersheim¹, Frank Huang-Hellinger, Michael Baker, Pearse Morris

Affiliation

¹ Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.

PMID: 12748113
PMCID: PMC7975812

Abstract

Sacral insufficiency fracture is a debilitating injury for which no active treatment is currently available. We present three consecutive cases of elderly patients with sacral insufficiency fractures whose symptoms were relieved immediately by treatment of the fractures by polymethylmethacrylate injections, a so-called sacroplasty.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Bone Cements / therapeutic use*
Female
Fluoroscopy
Fractures, Spontaneous / diagnostic imaging
Fractures, Spontaneous / therapy*
Humans
Injections
Lumbar Vertebrae / injuries
Polymethyl Methacrylate / therapeutic use*
Radiography, Interventional
Sacrum / diagnostic imaging
Sacrum / injuries*
Spinal Fractures / diagnostic imaging
Spinal Fractures / therapy*

Substances

Bone Cements
Polymethyl Methacrylate