Bone Cement
OSTEOPAL® V – A setting polymer for augmentation of vertebral bodies
used in spinal surgery
contains high content of radiopacifier zirconium dioxide as an X-ray contrast agent
high visibility in imaging techniques1
colored with chlorophyll-copper-complex (E141)
Indications
OSTEOPAL® V is used for augmentation of vertebral bodies:
- following painful vertebral body compression fractures in osteoporosis
- at painful vertebral body tumors (metastasis or myeloma)
- symptomatic vertebral hemangioma
In all named indications the percutaneous vertebroplasty is only a palliative treatment that stabilizes the vertebral body; a therapy of the systemic illness (osteoporosis, tumor) is not achieved by the percutaneous vertebroplasty.