Response to: Randomized controlled trial of vertebroplasty versus kyphoplasty in the treatment of vertebral compression fractures

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 763-764

  Beall, Douglas P ^a  

^a Clinical Radiology of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION FRACTURE; DISABILITY; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KYPHOPLASTY; LETTER; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; AGED; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; MALE; PROCEDURES; SPINAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

BONE CEMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE CEMENTS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; KYPHOPLASTY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPINAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 84977652315     PISSN: 17598478     EISSN: 17598486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-011929     Document Type: Letter

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