Percutaneous vertebroplasty and pulmonary cement embolism: Results from VERTOS II

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1451-1453

  Venmans, Alexander ^a   Klazen, C A H ^a   Lohle, P N M ^a   Van Rooij, W J ^a   Verhaar, H J J ^b   De Vries, J ^a   Mali, W P Th M ^b  

^a Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY CEMENT EMBOLISM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AZYGOS VEIN; BONE CEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 77956571451     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2127     Document Type: Article

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