Who should receive vertebroplasty?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 637-638

  Satre, Thomas J ^a   Mackler, Leslie ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Moses Cone Health Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BONE CEMENT;

BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BONE DESTRUCTION; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; MYELOMA; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE METASTASIS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; BACKACHE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOPOROSIS; SPINE FRACTURE;

BACK PAIN; BONE CEMENTS; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OSTEOPOROSIS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 33746052883     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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