Randomized vertebroplasty trials: bad news or sham news?

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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Is unilateral kyphoplasty as effective and safe as bilateral kyphoplasties for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures? A meta-analysis.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2014
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2. Enhanced Risk Stratification for Short-Term Complications Following Vertebral Augmentation for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures.International journal of spine surgery · 2023
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3. Kyphoplasty for Elderly Patients With Vertebral Compression Fractures-Do We Save Lives? Mortality Rates Analysis Comparison in a Long-Term Follow-Up Cohort.Global spine journal · 2022
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4. The Covid 19 Pandemic Effect on the Epidemiology of Thoracolumbar Fractures Presenting to the Emergency Department in Patients Above 65 years Old.Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation · 2022
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5. 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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6. Vertebral compression fractures: a review of current management and multimodal therapy.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2013
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7. Augmentation of implant fixation in osteoporotic bone.Current osteoporosis reports · 2012
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8. Treatment of an osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture with the StaXx FX system resulting in intrathoracic wafers: a serious complication.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
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9. 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
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10. 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
    Review
11. Vertebroplasty and the placebo response.Radiology · 2011
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12. Musculoskeletal imaging: current and future trends.European radiology · 2011
    Review
13. The case of vertebroplasty trials: promoting a culture of evidence-based procedural medicine.Spine · 2010
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14. [Vertebro- and kyphoplasty for percutaneous cement augmentation of osteoporotic vertebral body fractures].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2010
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15. Percutaneous cementoplasty.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2010
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