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 ...

Adequate tensile, compressive and shear strengths, depending on the site of injection (i.e., degree of load bearing and degree of motion, among other factors); Similar stiffness to the surrounding ...

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 ...

Calcium phosphate cements (CPC) have long been available for repairing bone problems caused by disease or accidents; however, recently published research reveals that French scientists just ...

Casey Lodge has always been an active guy. But constant knee problems have forced him to sit out. He's had four surgeries to repair the problems and developed bone marrow edema. "It was just 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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers comparing the effects of pulsed lavage against classic syringe lavage in total knee arthroplasty ...

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 ...