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Premature Bone Cement Displacement Causing Adjacent Vertebra Fracture Three Days after Percutaneous Kyphoplasty in Kümmell's Disease: A Case Report

Version 1 : Received: 19 December 2023 / Approved: 19 December 2023 / Online: 19 December 2023 (10:47:22 CET)

How to cite: Wu, H.; Dai, X.; Wang, S.; Liu, H.; Xu, S.; Huang, J. Premature Bone Cement Displacement Causing Adjacent Vertebra Fracture Three Days after Percutaneous Kyphoplasty in Kümmell's Disease: A Case Report. Preprints 2023, 2023121399. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1399.v1 Wu, H.; Dai, X.; Wang, S.; Liu, H.; Xu, S.; Huang, J. Premature Bone Cement Displacement Causing Adjacent Vertebra Fracture Three Days after Percutaneous Kyphoplasty in Kümmell's Disease: A Case Report. Preprints 2023, 2023121399. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1399.v1

Abstract

Percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) is a highly successful treatment option for Kümmell's disease (KD). Due to the obstruction of the fibrocartilaginous membrane at the periphery of the intervertebral vacuum cleft (IVC) and inadequate osteointegration of conventional bone cement, there is insufficient locking strength between trabecular bone and bone cement in Kümmell's disease (KD), leading to postoperative displacement of the bone cement and sub-sequent early surgical failure. However, there is no standard strategy managing this complica-tion at present. We reported a rare case of premature bone cement displacement resulting in adjacent vertebra fracture. An 80-year-old male with Kümmell's disease at T10 received per-cutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) with bone cement leaking into the upper disc. Only 3 days after the surgery, the patient complained of severe back pain again. X-ray and MRI showed bone cement displacement at T10, adjacent vertebra fracture at T9. In consideration of poor toler-ance of open surgery for the old patient, we successfully revised by using percutaneous ky-phoplasty with multi-point anchoring technique (A-PKP). During a 10-month postoperative follow-up, the patient reported pain relief. X-ray and three-dimensional CT scan revealed no obvious progress of bone cement displacement. Although the exact mechanism underlying this rare complication remains unclear, we observed that the premature bone cement dis-placement can result in adjacent vertebra fracture especially when the pattern of bone cement is blocky. Percutaneous kyphoplasty with multi-point anchoring technique (A-PKP) appears effective in managing this complication.

Keywords

kümmell's disease; intravertebral vacuum cleft; bone cement displacement; adjacent vertebral fracture; percutaneous kyphoplasty

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Surgery

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