Posterior decompression and stabilization, and surgical vertebroplasty with the vertebral body stenting for metastatic vertebral and epidural cauda equina compression

Andreas F Mavrogenis; Elias C Papadopoulos; Konstantinos Starantzis; Demetrios S Korres; Panayiotis J Papagelopoulos

doi:10.1002/jso.21472

Posterior decompression and stabilization, and surgical vertebroplasty with the vertebral body stenting for metastatic vertebral and epidural cauda equina compression

J Surg Oncol. 2010 Mar 1;101(3):253-8. doi: 10.1002/jso.21472.

Authors

Andreas F Mavrogenis¹, Elias C Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Starantzis, Demetrios S Korres, Panayiotis J Papagelopoulos

Affiliation

¹ First Department of Orthopaedics, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece.

PMID: 20082355
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21472

Abstract

We present the technique of combined posterior decompression and spinal instrumentation, and surgical (open) vertebroplasty using a novel system called vertebral body stenting (VBS) during a single session in a patient with metastatic vertebral and epidural cauda equina compression.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cauda Equina / surgery*
Decompression, Surgical / methods*
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Spinal Neoplasms / secondary*
Spinal Neoplasms / surgery
Stents*
Vertebroplasty / methods*