SynthesisAJNR. American journal of neuroradiology2006
Does vertebroplasty cause incident vertebral fractures? A review of available data.
Synthesis in AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.
- Subsequent fractures after vertebroplasty in osteoporotic vertebral fractures: a meta-analysis.Neurosurgical review · 2022Pooled it
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Is there really no benefit of vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral fractures? A meta-analysis.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2012Pooled it
- Efficacy of annual zoledronic acid in initial percutaneous kyphoplasty patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: a 3-year follow-up study.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2021Trial
- Preventive vertebroplasty for adjacent vertebral bodies: a good solution to reduce adjacent vertebral fracture after percutaneous vertebroplasty.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2012Trial
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty is not a risk factor for new osteoporotic compression fractures: results from VERTOS II.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2010Trial
- Vertebroplasty: what is important and what is not.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2009Trial
- CT- and MRI-based endplate osteoporosis status assessment for predicting adjacent vertebral fractures after thoracolumbar percutaneous kyphoplasty: a matched comparison study.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2025Article
- Factors Influencing the Development of Metachronous Fractures in Patients with Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures Treated with Conservative Management or Vertebroplasty.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Spontaneous osteoporotic vertebral refractures after percutaneous vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis: a case report and literature review.AME case reports · 2024Article
- Effect of cement volume on biomechanical response of a spine segment treated with a PEEK polymer implant: a finite element comparative study with vertebroplasty.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Kyphoplasty of Osteoporotic Fractured Vertebrae: A Finite Element Analysis about Two Types of Cement.BioMed research international · 2019Article
- Secondary balloon kyphoplasty for new vertebral compression fracture after initial single-level balloon kyphoplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2017Article
- Elastoplasty as a promising novel technique: Vertebral augmentation with an elastic silicone-based polymer.Acta orthopaedica et traumatologica turcica · 2017Article
- Bone cement distribution in the vertebral body affects chances of recompression after percutaneous vertebroplasty treatment in elderly patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.Clinical interventions in aging · 2017Article
- What's new in vertebral cementoplasty?The British journal of radiology · 2016Review
- Treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with percutaneous vertebroplasty under local anesthesia: clinical and radiological results.International journal of clinical and experimental medicine · 2015Article
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- Biomechanical evaluation of an injectable and biodegradable copolymer P(PF-co-CL) in a cadaveric vertebral body defect model.Tissue engineering. Part A · 2014Article
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Abstract
Vertebroplasty has been in practice in the United States for approximately 10 years and has been described as providing significant benefit to patients with painful vertebral compression fractures. Although the procedure appears to provide dramatic pain relief, it is not without complications. The primary point of discussion in this paper is whether vertebroplasty predisposes patients to the development of additional vertebral fractures, at a rate higher than that seen in the absence of vertebroplasty. To date there remains no definitive answer to this question. There is, however, a significant body of data available in the literature that relates to this issue. This review explores and attempts to synthesize the data both supporting and refuting a relationship between vertebroplasty and the development of subsequent fractures.
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