Bone Cement for Bone Metastasis

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To stabilize the bone, treat a fracture due to metastasis, and/or reduce pain, doctors can inject bone cement directly into the area(s) weakened by breast cancer.

Examples of this technique include:

  • Vertebroplasty: Guided by CT imaging, the doctor injects bone cement into the spinal bone, or vertebra, through a very small incision.
  • Kyphoplasty: This procedure also treats the spinal bone, but the doctor first inserts a small balloon to create a cavity in the bone. Then the cement is injected.
  • Cementoplasty: This term refers to the above techniques performed in any other bone in the body besides the spine.
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Last modified on July 5, 2017 at 7:59 AM

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