In the first study, researchers reviewed data from 99 patients treated for VCFs and found the incidence of cement leakage was 5.4 percent in the RF kyphoplasty group compared with 59.6 percent in the vertebroplasty group.
The second study evaluated 63 patients treated with RF kyphoplasty and found a cement leakage rate of 4.4 percent, compared with vertebroplasty rates of between 10 percent and 70 percent reported in clinical literature, according to the release.
Read the release on RF kyphoplasty.
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