A randomised sham controlled trial of vertebroplasty for painful acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures (VERTOS IV)

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Firanescu, Cristina ^a   Lohle, Paul N M ^a   de Vries, Jolanda ^a,d   Klazen, Caroline A ^b   Juttmann, Job R ^a   Clark, William ^c   van Rooij, Willem J ^a  

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

^b MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c St George Private Hospital   (Australia)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL; VITAMIN D; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPENIA; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); VERTEBRA COMPRESSION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINE FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANALGESICS; BACK PAIN; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPINAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 79953269897     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-93     Document Type: Article

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