The Pain of Vertebral Compression Fractures Can Arise in the Posterior Elements

Pain Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1666-1673

  Bogduk, Nikolai ^a   MacVicar, John ^b   Borowczyk, James ^c  

^a Newcastle Bone and Joint Institute   (Australia)

^b St George's Medical Centre   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Compression Fracture; Diagnostic Block; Medial Branch; Osteoporosis; Pain

Indexed keywords

OXYCODONE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL PAIN; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

EID: 78149244816     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00963.x     Document Type: Article

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