Medical Dictionary
kyphoplasty
noun ky·pho·plas·ty \ˈkī-fō-ˌplas-tē\
plural ky·pho·plas·ties
Medical Definition of KYPHOPLASTY
: a medical procedure that is similar to vertebroplasty in the use of acrylic cement to stabilize and reduce pain associated with a vertebral compression fracture but that additionally restores vertebral height and lessens spinal deformity by injecting the cement into a cavity created in the fractured bone by the insertion and inflation of a special balloon
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