INDICATIONS | CONTRAINDICATIONS |
- Painful Osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures | - Asymptomatic fractures. |
- Spinal Tumors | - Active osteomyelitis of the fractured vertebra, Uncorrectable coagulopathy. |
- Vertebral Hemangiomas | - Allergy to vertebroplasty cement or opacifying agents. |
| - Significant central canal narrowing from retropulsion of bony fragment or epidural tumor, Ongoing systemic infection, Myelopathy or radiculopathy from fracture level. |