Fragility fractures requiring special consideration: Vertebral fractures

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 361-372

  Kammerlander, Christian ^a   Zegg, Michael ^a   Schmid, Rene ^a   Gosch, Markus ^b   Luger, Thomas J ^a   Blauth, Michael ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Hospital Hochzirl   (Austria)

Author keywords

Augmented instrumentation; Comorbidities; Elderly; Fracture treatment; Odontoid fracture; Osteoporotic fracture; Vertebral fracture

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BONE CEMENT;

AGED; AGING; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISABILITY; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KYPHOPLASTY; LOWER CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; LUMBAR SPINE; MOBILIZATION; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; ORTHOSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE STABILIZATION; THORACIC SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURE; FRAIL ELDERLY; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; SPINAL FRACTURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 84897962820     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: 18798853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cger.2014.01.011     Document Type: Review

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