Cement emboli

Benjamin Batson; Mark Sigler

Benjamin Batson Department of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX.
Mark Sigler Department of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX.

Keywords: cement, vertebroplasty, pulmonary emboli, iatrogenic

Abstract

Some patients develop clinically significant iatrogenic emboli while undergoing vertebroplasty procedures.

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