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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Johns Hopkins interventional radiologists have demonstrated that cement can be injected into the spine without prior, potentially dangerous dye studies. Johns Hopkins interventional radiologists have ...

SEATTLE – Reba Golden hurt her back after falling two floors while building an addition to her house in Honduras, but when she returned to Seattle for a routine spinal surgery, she suffered blood ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Each year, 700,000 people die due to antibiotic resistance. A growing global population unfortunately generates a growing resistance to established antibiotic treatments -- a threat that has been met ...

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 ...