Sacroplasty - new hope for pain from sacral metastasis

Abstract

The cementoplasty in squashing or vertebral fractures is an action that is utilized with high frequency in the modern society, based in the percutaneous injection of polimetil-metacrylate. The objective of this presentation is to show you an experience to a new perspective in the treatment of the cancer pain; In this case for metastasis in S2's vertebral body, from a prostate cancer, that presented a crippling pain. That is why we thought the way it was conducted was innovative and there are few cases that have been reported in the worldwide bibliography on the sacroplasty.

Keywords

• cementoplasty
• vertebroplasty
• sacroplasty