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Doughnut vertebroplasty for circumferential aggressive vertebral hemangiomas
  1. Cecile Roscop1,
  2. Florent Gariel2,
  3. David Christopher Kieser3,
  4. Benjamin Bouyer1,
  5. Olivier Gille1,
  6. Gaultier Marnat2,4,
  7. Jerome Berge2
  1. 1 The Spine Institute, University Hospital Centre Bordeaux Pellegrin Hospital Group, Bordeaux, France
  2. 2 Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Centre Bordeaux Pellegrin Hospital Group, Bordeaux, France
  3. 3 Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand
  4. 4 Interventional and Diagnostic Neuroradiology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr David Christopher Kieser, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand; kieserdavid{at}gmail.com

Abstract

Background To assess the feasibility, safety and efficacy of a percutaneous doughnut vertebroplasty of circumferential aggressive vertebral hemangiomas (VHs).

Methods We retrospectively reviewed our prospectively collected database of patients with VHs treated with vertebroplasty between January 2009 and January 2018. Patient demographics, clinical presentations and procedural details were recorded. All patients underwent preoperative computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). All vertebroplasties were performed under conscious sedation in the prone position, predominantly using biplane fluoroscopic guidance. A clinical and imaging evaluation (early CT scan and MRI) as well as a final follow-up clinical assessment was performed.

Results Twenty-two patients with aggressive VHs who underwent circumferential vertebroplasty with cementation of the entire vertebral body and at least one posterior hemi-arch were included (six males, mean age 53 years). At 3 months follow-up, nine patients (41%) had complete, 11 (50%) had partial and two (9%) had no resolution of pain. Nine of 14 patients had a decrease in venous swelling on MRI. No complications were observed. Five patients (23%) underwent adjunctive surgery within 1 year for persistence or worsening of neurological symptoms. Clinical and radiographic improvements were maintained to final follow-up.

Conclusions Doughnut vertebroplasty offers a mini-invasive, safe and effective treatment of aggressive circumferential VHs. This technique improves pain in over 90% of patients as well as a reduction in radicular and neurological symptoms associated with a tendency to regression of the compressive epidural venous component of these lesions.

  • spine
  • intervention
  • neoplasm
  • technique
  • tumor

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  • Contributors CR: data analysis, manuscript writeup and review. FG: data analysis, manuscript writeup and review. DCK: data analysis, interpretation, manuscript writeup and review. OG: study design, data collection, analysis, manuscript writeup and review. GM: data collection, analysis, manuscript writeup and review. BB: data collection, analysis, manuscript writeup and review. JB: study design, data collection, analysis, manuscript writeup and review.

  • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.