Current Perspectives on Percutaneous Vertebroplasty: Current Evidence/Controversies, Patient Selection and Assessment, and Technique and Complications
Figure 5
86-year-old woman with known multiple myeloma and pathological fracture of T6. During PV, posterior cement leak was noted soon after injection commenced; the procedure was abandoned. (a): Axial CT demonstrates permeative bone destruction of T6 (black arrows). Cement has extravasated posteriorly into the epidural space. (b) Sagittal CT demonstrates a thin collection of epidural cement anterior to the thecal sac (dashed white arrow). The patient remained asymptomatic initially and at followup and decompression was not required.
