The vertebroplasty affair: the mysterious case of the disappearing effect size

Spine Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 191-192

  Carragee, Eugene J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; EFFECT SIZE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; KYPHOPLASTY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE TUMOR; STROBOSCOPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES; VEIN PUNCTURE;

DOCUMENTATION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SPINAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 77749273427     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2010.01.002     Document Type: Editorial

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