Immediate and early postoperative pain relief after kyphoplasty without significant restoration of vertebral body height in acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures

H. Feltes, Carlos; N. Fountas, Kostas; G. Machinis, Theofilos; G. Nikolakakos, Leonidas; G. Dimopoulos, Vassilios; Davydov, Rostislav; Kassam, Mozaffar; W. Johnston, Kim; Sam Robinson, Joe

doi:10.3171/foc.2005.18.3.6

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Immediate and early postoperative pain relief after kyphoplasty without significant restoration of vertebral body height in acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures

Published in Neurosurgical FOCUS • Mar 1, 2005

Authors:

Carlos H. Feltes

Kostas N. Fountas

Theofilos G. Machinis

Abstract

OBJECT: Painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) are a significant cause of disability in the elderly population. Kyphoplasty, a recently developed minimally invasive procedure, has been advocated for the successful management of these fractures in terms of immediate pain relief, ...

Subject

Medicine

Visual analogue scale

Retrospective cohort study

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