Spinal augmentation: what have we learnt?

The Lancet

Volumn 373, Issue 9679, 2009, Pages 1947-

  Longo, Umile Giuseppe ^a   Denaro, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EXTRAVASATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; KYPHOPLASTY; LETTER; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; SAFETY; SPINE FRACTURE;

BONE CEMENT;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMECHANICS; BONE CEMENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAFETY; SPINAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 66149182879     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61065-5     Document Type: Letter

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