Clinical Effects and Complications of Pedicle Screw Augmentation with Bone Cement: Comparison of Fenestrated Screw Augmentation and Vertebroplasty Augmentation.

Conclusions: In osteoporotic patients, bone cement augmentation of a pedicle screw decreased the incidence of screw loosening, and fenestrated screw augmentation was more effective than vertebroplasty augmentation. PMID: 32489541 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32489541?dopt=Abstract

Source: Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery - June 4, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Clin Orthop Surg Source Type: research

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