Vertebroplasty: about sense and nonsense of uncontrolled "controlled randomized prospective trials".

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for vertebral compression fracture with osteopenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2015
   Pooled it
2. [Cement augmentation in spinal surgery].Unfallchirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022
   Review
3. What is the role of vertebral augmentation for osteoporotic fractures? A review of the recent literature.Neuroradiology · 2018
   Review
4. Spine surgery registries: hope for evidence-based spinal care?Journal of spine surgery (Hong Kong) · 2018
   Review
5. Appropriateness criteria for treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2018
   Review
6. Utilization of vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures throughout the United States over a recent decade: an analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample.Journal of spine surgery (Hong Kong) · 2017
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7. The variability of vertebral body volume and pain associated with osteoporotic vertebral fractures: conservative treatment versus percutaneous transpedicular vertebroplasty.International orthopaedics · 2017
   Article
8. Percutaneous vertebral augmentation in fragility fractures-indications and limitations.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2017
   Review
9. Percutaneous vertebroplasty in Moroccan patients with vertebral compression fractures.The Pan African medical journal · 2017
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10. Reviewer's comment concerning "The surgical algorithm for the AOSpine thoracolumbar spine injury classification system" (by A.R. Vaccaro et al.: Eur Spine J, 2015; doi:10.1007/s00586-015-3982-2).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 · 2016
    Article
11. Vertebral Augmentation: State of the Art.Asian spine journal · 2016
    Review
12. Health economic aspects of vertebral augmentation procedures.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2015
    Review
13. Cement volume is the most important modifiable predictor for pain relief in BKP: results from SWISSspine, a nationwide registry.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 · 2013
    Article
14. Vertebral compression fractures: a review of current management and multimodal therapy.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2013
    Article
15. Continuing conservative care versus crossover to radiofrequency kyphoplasty: a comparative effectiveness study on the treatment of vertebral body fractures.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 · 2012
    Article
16. Balloon kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty in the management of vertebral compression fractures.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2011
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17. The Michel Benoist and Robert Mulholland yearly European Spine Journal Review: a survey of the "surgical and research" articles in the European Spine Journal, 2010.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 · 2011
    Review
18. Volume matters: a review of procedural details of two randomised controlled vertebroplasty trials of 2009.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 · 2010
    Review
19. [Vertebro- and kyphoplasty for percutaneous cement augmentation of osteoporotic vertebral body fractures].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2010
    Article
20. [Traumatic vertebral body fractures and osteoporosis: value of cement augmentation].Der Orthopade · 2010
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  A randomized trial of vertebroplasty for painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures.2009

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