Percutaneous vertebroplasty for subacute and chronic painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures can safely be undertaken in the first year after the onset of symptoms

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 94 B, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 815-820

  Nieuwenhuijse, M J ^a   Van Erkel, A R ^a   Dijkstra, P D S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; OSTEOPOROTIC VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACK PAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINAL FRACTURES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 84861850109     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.94B6.28368     Document Type: Article

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