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Intraosseous Venography with Carbon Dioxide Contrast Agent in Percutaneous Vertebroplasty

¹ All authors: Department of Radiology, Kansai Medical University, 10-15, Fumizono, Moriguchi, Osaka 570-8507, Japan.

OBJECTIVE. Our objectives were to ascertain whether CO₂ can be used as a contrast agent in venography during percutaneous vertebroplasty and to evaluate whether it might be capable of replacing nonionic iodinated contrast agents.

CONCLUSION. Intraosseous venography with CO₂ contrast agent was slightly inferior to iodine venography in terms of its ability to visualize the vertebral bodies and perivertebral veins, but it remains a useful technique because no interference with optimal visualization of bone cement occurs during the cement injection when CO₂ remains within the fracture cleft.

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