Percutaneous Vertebroplasty Compared to Conservative Treatment in Patients With Painful Acute or Subacute Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures

Rousing, Rikke; Østerheden Andersen, Mikkel; M. Jespersen, Stig; Thomsen, Karsten; Lauritsen, Jens

doi:10.1097/brs.0b013e3181a4e628

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Percutaneous Vertebroplasty Compared to Conservative Treatment in Patients With Painful Acute or Subacute Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures

Published in Spine • May 25, 2009

Authors:

Rikke Rousing

Mikkel Østerheden Andersen

Stig M. Jespersen

Abstract

STUDY DESIGN: Clinical randomized study. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to compare percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) to conservative treatment of patients with osteoporotic vertebral fractures in a clinical randomized study with respect to pain, physical and mental outcome, and to asses the ris...

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Medicine

Percutaneous vertebroplasty

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