PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH HEMANGIOMAS AND TUMOR LESIONS OF THE SPINE

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К.К.КАRIMOV

Percutaneous vertebroplasty (bone grafting, percutaneous bone grafting, etc.) is essentially a neuroradiological procedure in which a rapidly hardening bone cement based on polymethylmethacrylate is injected into the body of a partially collapsed vertebra for some reason and/or affected by the productive process (Galibert P. et al., 1987, Jarvik J. G. et al.2003, Kushchaev C. B. 2008). The main goal of vertebroplasty is, first of all, to restore the support capacity of the damaged or affected vertebra sufficiently early in time, to achieve an analgesic, antitumor effect (Diamond T. N. et al.,