July 15, 2004 — Radiofrequency (RF) ablation followed by percutaneous vertebroplasty with bone cement relieves pain and prevents tumor enhancement in patients with malignant bone neoplasms, according ...

A radioactive bone cement that's injected into bone to provide support and local irradiation is proving to be a safer alternative to conventional radiation therapy for bone tumors, according to a new ...

Normally, a bone cancer patient needs 10 or more sessions of radiation therapy. But with the brachytherapy bone cement, Keyak said, a single injection can provide an equivalent, targeted tumor ...

The 56-year-old man had undergone a surgery for a spinal procedure in which medical bone cement in injected into the vertebrae. New England Journal of Medicine What a stone-hearted surgical mishap. A ...

A common treatment that uses medical cement to fix cracks in the spinal bones of elderly people worked no better than a sham treatment, the first rigorous studies of the popular procedure reveal. Pain ...

Johns Hopkins interventional radiologists have demonstrated that cement can be injected into the spine without prior, potentially dangerous dye studies. Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV), injecting ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Massive osteolytic metastases in the periacetabular regions are clinical dilemmas. The classical teaching 10 to ...

SEATTLE – Reba Golden hurt her back after falling two floors while building an addition to her house in Honduras, but when she returned to Seattle for a routine spinal surgery, she suffered blood ...

A man who had received a cement injection into damaged vertebrae in his spine almost died a week after his surgery when the cement leaked, hardening into a four-inch piece of concrete that pierced his ...