New Symptomatic Compression Fracture after Percutaneous Vertebroplasty at the Thoracolumbar Junction
C.C. Lina,
I.H. Chenb,
T.C. Yub,
A. Chena,c and
P.S. Yena
a Departments of Medical Imaging, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
b Orthopedics, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
c Anesthesiology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

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Fig 1. Measurement of the collapsed vertebral body before (A) and after (B) vertebroplasty. (H indicates the height of the collapsed body at the center; NH, the height of the posterior border of an adjacent normal vertebral body; , the wedge angle as described by Teng et al.7)
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