TY - GEN AU - Mamdouh Mahmoud Mohamed Makhloof AU - Abdelsalam Abdelghaffar , AU - Wael Koptan , TI - Percutaneous vertebroplasty in management of pathological fractures of the spine / PY - 2007/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mamdouh Mahmoud Mohamed Makhloof , KW - Pathological fractures of spine KW - Percutaneous vertebroplasty KW - VCFs N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Orthopaedic Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - Acrylic cements have been used for the augmentatin of weakened or partially destroyed bones for decades the term vertebroplasty originally described an open surgical procedure that introduces bone graft or acrylic cement to mechanically augment weakened vertebral bodies ER -