Vertebroplasty / Osteoplasty

Co-operation between the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital), Department of Accidental, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital) and Department of General Orthopaedics and Traumatology (Orthopaedic University Hospital, Friedrichsheim).

Dear Patients,

In the following pages we would like to inform you about the various interventional therapies for pain reduction und stabilisation of vertebral body fractures through percutaneous application of bone-cement in patients with osteoporosis and malignant bone tumors.

Document Date: 2006/05/08   Author: Ahmed Koujan