RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Transforaminal epidural steroid injection for the treatment of severe back pain caused by cement leakage during kyphoplasty procedure
JF Neurosciences Journal
JO Neurosciences (Riyadh)
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 79
OP 80
VO 12
IS 1
A1 Ergin, Atilla
A1 Kilickaya, Oguz
A1 Kurt, Ercan
A1 Sehirlioglu, Ali
YR 2007
UL http://nsj.org.sa/content/12/1/79.abstract
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.