Abstract:

BACKGROUND: As a new technology in the field of minimally invasive spinal surgery, percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) has aroused wide concern. The application of bone cement injection has got great development in senilely clinical osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCF), stable fracture spinal, spinal tumor, and carcinoid tumor.
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the clinical application and advances of bone cement injection in spinal surgery both at home and abroad.
METHODS: Within the database CNKI and Pubmed (http://www. ncbi.nlm. nih.gov/sites/entrez) to search the articles about vertebroplasty (2005-01/2009-12), with “vertebroplasty” or “PVP” as key words. Within the 748 articles as results, articles on “PKP”, “SKY”, “compressed fracture” and “spinal tumor” were retrieved, again. Fity-nine articles about spinal bone cement injection were selected, and lately published or on authoritative magazines were chosen if in the same field. Finally, 26 typical  articels about spinal bone cement injection were selected after browsing the whole passage according the standards, together with another two from OVID ONLINE.  
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Percutaneous bone cement injection shows remarkable effects on senile OVCF, stable spinal fracture in the young and middle aged, spine metastatic tumour, or pain induced by spine carcinoid tumour. With the characteristics as simple operation, short duration of surgery, and fewer serious complications, it is widely accepted by most patients and professional medical staff. As the research and development of new bone cement technology, bone cement injection will be more widely applied in spinal surgery.