Natural history of pain in patients with conservatively treated osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: Results from VERTOS II

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 519-521

  Venmans, Alexander ^a   Klazen, C A ^a   Lohle, P N M ^a   Mali, W P ^b   Van Rooij, W J ^a  

^a CPRLab   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; PAIN; PREVALENCE; SPINAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858666636     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2817     Document Type: Article

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