Reviewer's comment on: Balloon kyphoplasty for the treatment of pathological vertebral compressive fractures (I.N. Gaitanis et al.)

European Spine Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 261-262

  Pellise F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; KYPHOPLASTY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FRACTURES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 17744362873     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-004-0790-5     Document Type: Note

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