Trials of vertebroplasty for vertebral fractures.

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

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

1. Effectiveness of vertebroplasty using individual patient data from two randomised placebo controlled trials: meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2011
   Pooled it
2. Combination radiofrequency ablation and cementoplasty for palliative treatment of painful neoplastic bone metastasis: experience with 53 treated lesions in 36 patients.Skeletal radiology · 2011
   Trial
3. Evaluation of lumbar facet joint nerve blocks in managing chronic low back pain: a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial with a 2-year follow-up.International journal of medical sciences · 2010
   Trial
4. 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
5. Recommendations for management of low-back pain misleading.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2014
   Article
6. Vertebroplasty: where do we go from here?Skeletal radiology · 2011
   Article
7. Current perspectives on percutaneous vertebroplasty: current evidence/controversies, patient selection and assessment, and technique and complications.Radiology research and practice · 2011
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  A randomized trial of vertebroplasty for painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures.2009
• Comment on
  A randomized trial of vertebroplasty for osteoporotic spinal fractures.2009

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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