What am I looking at?
Visual recognition
Platform components include bone-access cannulas, inflatable bone tamps, and a pistol-grip cement-delivery system with clear tubing and cartridge; the pictured Kyphon™ CDS is the cement-delivery component.
15-12
Vertebral augmentation/kyphoplasty system
Kyphon™ balloon and cement-delivery platform
Three-panel learning framework
Recognition, context, and distinction
What does it do, and where will I see it?
Use & procedural context
Provides percutaneous vertebral-body access, cavity creation with an inflatable bone tamp during balloon kyphoplasty, and controlled radiopaque PMMA cement delivery to stabilize selected painful pathologic vertebral compression fractures.
What most clearly distinguishes it from similar devices?
Key distinctions
Balloon kyphoplasty inflates and removes an intraosseous balloon before cement deposition; vertebroplasty places cement without balloon cavity creation. Both differ from bone biopsy, which primarily obtains tissue rather than stabilizing a fracture.