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State-of-the-art treatments range from vertebroplasty\/kyphoplasty to hardware-based spinal stabilization in which screw augmentation with cement is the gold standard. Case presentation: We describe the case of a 74-year-old man with an L5 osteoporotic fracture. The patient underwent a vertebroplasty (VP) procedure, which was complicated by a symptomatic cement leakage in the right L4\u2013L5 neuroforamen. We urgently decompressed the affected pedicle via hemilaminectomy. At that point, the column required stability. The extravasation of cement had ruled out the use of cement-augmented pedicle screws but leaving the pedicular screws alone was not considered sufficient to achieve stability. We decided to cover the screws with a polyethylene terephthalate sleeve (OGmend\u00ae) to avoid additional cement leakage and to reinforce the screw strength required by the poor bone quality. Conclusion: In the evolving technologies used for spinal surgery, screws sleeve implants such as OGmend\u00ae are a useful addition to the surgeon\u2019s armamentarium when an increased pull-out strength is required and other options are not available.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicines10010006","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,2]],"date-time":"2023-01-02T03:50:32Z","timestamp":1672631432000},"page":"6","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Novel Polyethylene Terephthalate Screw Sleeve Implant: Salvage Treatment in a Case of Spine Instability after Vertebroplasty Failure"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Giacomo","family":"Drago","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neuroscience, Universit\u00e0 di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Giulia","family":"Pastorello","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Aulss 2 Marca Trevigiana, 31100 Treviso, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Paolo","family":"Gallinaro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Aulss 2 Marca Trevigiana, 31100 Treviso, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Roberto","family":"Zanata","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Aulss 2 Marca Trevigiana, 31100 Treviso, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jacopo","family":"Del Verme","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Aulss 2 Marca Trevigiana, 31100 Treviso, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Altin","family":"Stafa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neuroradiology, Aulss 2 Marca Trevigiana, 31100 Treviso, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8863-116X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Enrico","family":"Giordan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Aulss 2 Marca Trevigiana, 31100 Treviso, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1432","DOI":"10.1016\/j.spinee.2015.03.016","article-title":"The biomechanics of pedicle screw augmentation with cement","volume":"15","author":"Elder","year":"2015","journal-title":"Spine J."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1553","DOI":"10.1007\/s00586-022-07193-z","article-title":"Beyond the pedicle screw\u2014A patent review","volume":"31","author":"Sakes","year":"2022","journal-title":"Eur. 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