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A randomised sham controlled trial of vertebroplasty for painful acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures (VERTOS IV)

BACKGROUND: The standard care in patients with a painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is conservative therapy. Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV), a minimally invasive technique, is a new treatment option. Recent randomized controlled trials (RCT) provide conflicting results: two...

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Autores principales: Firanescu, Cristina, Lohle, Paul NM, de Vries, Jolanda, Klazen, Caroline A, Juttmann, Job R, Clark, William, van Rooij, Willem Jan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3083362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21466679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-12-93