Re: Now Daryl Dad....Today in the Garden

It's a fairly new procedure called Kyphoplasty. A small hole is drilled through the broken vertebra and a balloon inserted. The balloon is expanded to restore the bone to its original configuration and then withdrawn. After that, a special "cement" (polymethylmethacrylate ) fills in the space.

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----- Original Message ----- From: <Cersgarden@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] Now Daryl Dad....Today in the Garden


In a message dated 6/27/06 9:44:33 PM, pulis@mindspring.com writes:



There
was a bit of leakage of the "cement" but fortunately into the muscle, not
into the spinal canal, and the Dr. didn't think it would be a problem.
Daryl, please tell me about the procedure he had done. I must have missed
your earlier message.
Ceres
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