Radiologically guided vertebroplasty for treatment of painful osteoporotic lesions and vertebral body tumors

Vertebroplasty is a radiological intervention for the augmentation of bone lesions with bone cement. Main indications are the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral body fractures, however also the treatment of tumorous lesions becomes more and more established. The indication for vertebroplasty of tumorous lesions is therapyrefractory pain in symptomatic hemangiomas, metastases and myelomas. By minimal invasive therapy stabilization of vertebral bodies and pain reduction may be achieved. (orig.)