PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ergin, Atilla
AU  - Kilickaya, Oguz
AU  - Kurt, Ercan
AU  - Sehirlioglu, Ali
TI  - Transforaminal epidural steroid injection for the treatment of severe back pain caused by cement leakage during kyphoplasty procedure
DP  - 2007 Jan 01
TA  - Neurosciences Journal
PG  - 79--80
VI  - 12
IP  - 1
4099  - http://nsj.org.sa/content/12/1/79.short
4100  - http://nsj.org.sa/content/12/1/79.full
SO  - Neurosciences (Riyadh)2007 Jan 01; 12
AB  - Kyphoplasty is a minimally invasive procedure that is increasingly used to treat pain caused by compression fractures of vertebral bodies. A 56-year-old woman who had a compression fracture on the vertebral body of L5 vertebra was admitted to the Algology Department with a severe low back and leg pain. Kyphoplasty was planned for pain relief. She suffered severe pain in her back and left leg immediately after the procedure because of a leakage of injected cement through the fracture line. After injection of triamcinolone and bupivacaine transforaminally into the L5-S1 anterior epidural space, her pain complaints ended. If radicular pain symptoms caused by cement leakage are secondary to a chemically mediated non-cellular inflammatory reaction, transforaminal epidural steroid injection should be useful.