Table 1 Highest observed temperatures at four locations within each specimen in Stage 1 (vertebroplasty without cement leakage) and Stage 2 (vertebroplasty with cement leakage) experiments.
From: Cement leakage causes potential thermal injury in vertebroplasty
Locations of thermocouples | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anterior | Foramen | Posterior | Center | |||||
Specimen | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 1 | Stage 2 |
1 | 38.4 | 38.3 | 37.1 | 41.2 | 36.9 | 65.8 | 75.0 | 82.4 |
2 | 44.6 | 44.3 | 43.4 | 41.1 | 39.6 | 68.4 | 65.8 | 76.1 |
3 | 41.8 | 42.1 | 38.7 | 41.0 | 40.0 | 61.8 | 66.6 | 72.9 |
4 | 43.8 | 42.8 | 38.9 | 40.4 | 38.8 | 48.5 | 66.5 | 85.5 |
5 | 42.0 | 44.3 | 39.7 | 41.2 | 44.6 | 53.9 | 67.7 | 70.5 |
6 | 43.7 | 44.4 | 39.4 | 41.8 | 39.8 | 56.3 | 67.2 | 76.6 |
Avg. | 42.4 | 42.7 | 39.5 | 41.1 | 40.0 | 59.1 | 68.1 | 77.3 |
SD | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 7.6 | 3.4 | 5.7 |
P-value | 0.81 | 0.10 | 0.0001 | 0.007 | ||||