Re: OTP a bit - Fill in back fractures with cement?
- From: "d'huit" <threecedars1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:40:43 -0700
"Navy" <medical23SkidooFISH@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a friend who wrote to me and said his wife had a cat-scan and they,
well, let me put it in his words:
My wife had a cat-scan done on her back and it revealed a couple of
fractures on her spine. What they want to do is go in an fill the fractures
in with some kind of quick drying cement under pressure. Do you know of
anyone that has had that done and what was the outcome?
i haven't, but had a friend who had kyphoplasty (sp?) done, i believe that
procedure is called, in two vertibrae fractures, about 5 years ago. hers
was a very good outcome and is still enduring well.
another friend and myself used to tease our orthopod (we both had the same
ortho. she had a motorcycle wreck and i had a car wreck close to the same
time in '71 and wound up in the hospital together.). we teased him about
our wanting him to use glue on our mulitiple fractures, so we didn't have to
have any more surgeries. heck, we even offered to buy the elmer's for him
to use.<g> bone cement has been around for a long time, and we knew about
it back then. but, it is much better stuff than they used to have to work
with, though they cannot use it on just any kind of fracture. they also
have to be careful about not using too much of it.
kate
Anybody heard of this treatment? We would appreciate it if anybody has and
would share their experience with me so I can forward it to him.
Thanks so much.
--
Navy
Take out the FISH to email me.
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