The effectiveness and safety of vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures. A double blind, prospective, randomized, controlled study

Clinical Cases in Mineral and Bone Metabolism

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 109-113

  Longo, Umile Giuseppe ^a   Loppini, Mattia ^a   Denaro, Luca ^b   Brandi, Maria Luisa ^b   Maffulli, Nicola ^c   Denaro, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cementoplasty; Osteoporosis; Osteoporotic fractures; Vertebral compression fractures; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BACKACHE; BED REST; BRACE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 78449246594     PISSN: 17248914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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