(i) Patient selection criteria for vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty in painful osteoporotic fracture

Orthopaedics and Trauma

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 79-82

  Whitehouse, Richard W ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kyphoplasty; Osteoporosis; Vertebral fracture; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT;

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE DURATION; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; KYPHOPLASTY; PAIN PARAMETERS; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

EID: 79955737561     PISSN: 18771327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mporth.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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