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ArticleThe journal of spinal cord medicine2020

A 3D finite element model of prophylactic vertebroplasty in the metastatic spine: Vertebral stability and stress distribution on adjacent vertebrae.

Alessandra Berton, Giuseppe Salvatore, Hugo Giambini, Mauro Ciuffreda, Umile Giuseppe Longo, Vincenzo Denaro, Andrew Thoreson, Kai-Nan An

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Article in The journal of spinal cord medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. A three-dimensional finite element-based biomechanical properties analysis of the 10th thoracic vertebra invaded by bone metastases for clinical procedure optimization.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 · 2026
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  6. Biomechanical effects of defect size and location on vertebral fracture.Journal of medical and biological engineering · 2025
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  7. A finite element study of the effect of cross-link stabilisation in a lumbar spine tumour model.Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine · 2025
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  8. The burden of percutaneous vertebroplasty: an epidemiological nationwide study in Italy from 2009 to 2015.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 · 2021
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  11. Computational Challenges in Tissue Engineering for the Spine.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Alessandra BertonDepartment of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
Giuseppe SalvatoreDepartment of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
Hugo GiambiniBiomechanics Laboratory, Division of Orthopaedic Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Mauro CiuffredaDepartment of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
Umile Giuseppe LongoDepartment of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
Vincenzo DenaroDepartment of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
Andrew ThoresonBiomechanics Laboratory, Division of Orthopaedic Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Kai-Nan AnBiomechanics Laboratory, Division of Orthopaedic Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Università Campus Bio-Medico · ITMayo Clinic · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Finite Element AnalysisNeoplasm MetastasisVertebroplastyHumansLumbar VertebraeOsteoporosisSpinal FracturesSpinal NeoplasmsFractureMetastasisSpineStabilityStressVertebraeVertebroplasty

Identifiers

PMID29446706
PMCPMC7006681
OpenAlexW2791890289

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