July 15, 2004 — Radiofrequency (RF) ablation followed by percutaneous vertebroplasty with bone cement relieves pain and prevents tumor enhancement in patients with malignant bone neoplasms, according ...

Normally, a bone cancer patient needs 10 or more sessions of radiation therapy. But with the brachytherapy bone cement, Keyak said, a single injection can provide an equivalent, targeted tumor ...

The 56-year-old man had undergone a surgery for a spinal procedure in which medical bone cement in injected into the vertebrae. New England Journal of Medicine What a stone-hearted surgical mishap. A ...

Johns Hopkins interventional radiologists have demonstrated that cement can be injected into the spine without prior, potentially dangerous dye studies. Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV), injecting ...

Each year, 700,000 people die due to antibiotic resistance. A growing global population unfortunately generates a growing resistance to established antibiotic treatments - a threat that has been met ...