Randomized controlled trial of percutaneous vertebroplasty versus optimal medical management for the relief of pain and disability in acute osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 561-569

  Farrokhi, Majid Reza ^a,b   Alibai, Ehsanali ^a,b   Maghami, Zohre ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Osteoporosis; Pain; Spine; Vertebral compression fracture; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; CALCITONIN; CALCIUM; CODEINE; IBUPROFEN; PARACETAMOL; VITAMIN D;

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACETAMINOPHEN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CODEINE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; IBUPROFEN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPINAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 79955636543     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.12.SPINE10286     Document Type: Article

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