What is a Kyphoplasty?

RadMaster · Site Admin Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 198

What is a kyphoplasty?

Describe the procedure as well as the location within the body that it is done for.
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papa · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:31 am Post subject:

this for students or anybody?

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RadMaster · Site Admin Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 198

papa · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:40 am Post subject:

let me see if i can remember it right, i was only on the CT side of them.

it's for lesions in the spine, or areas that have lost density. under angiography, the radiologists inserts a needle into the lesion and fills it with cement. this is to alieve pain from the lack of bone material.

maybe?

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cindyw · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 1

Kyphoplasty is the restoration of height to the vertebrae. Before the cement is inserted into the vertebrae, as it would be in vertebroplasty, a balloon in inserted. The balloon is inflated in hopes to restore height to the body before cement is injected.

Vertebroplasty - done to give stability to the vertebae and prevent from further collapse.

Kyphoplasty - done to restore height (think reverse kyphosis in patient) and stabilize vertebrae.

vkkevin · Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 1

Kyphoplasty is a medical procedure developed by orthopedist Mark A. Reiley, MD, where the original height and angle of kyphosis of a fractured ...