Reply to the letter to editor regarding the article “Treatment of vertebral body hemangiomas with direct ethanol injection and short segment stabilization”

We thank you for giving us an opportunity to respond to the letter to the Editor by Wang et al. [1]. Doppman et al. [2] in 1994 described the first case report of this technique. Goyal et al. [3] (from our institute) performed percutaneous transpedicular injection under computed tomography guidance for 14 patients. They noted transient deterioration in all the patients. Eleven patients were stable or improved over long term correlated with reduction of epidural soft tissue seen on postoperative MRI.

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