Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34193518›Full record

ReviewRMD open2021

Vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral fracture.

Christian Roux, Bernard Cortet, Valérie Bousson, Thierry Thomas

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Review in RMD open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Cement leakage and post-operative outcomes after lower-versus higher-volume bone cement injection in percutaneous vertebroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.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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  10. Recent trends in chronic pain medicine.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2023
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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

4 authors.

Christian RouxINSERM U1153, APHP.Centre-Université de Paris, Service de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France christian.roux@aphp.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-5880-2933
Bernard CortetDepartment of Rheumatology, ULR 4490, Université de Lille, Lille University Hospital, Lille, France.
Valérie BoussonService de Radiologie Ostéo-Articulaire, APHP.Nord-Université de Paris, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France.
Thierry ThomasService de Rhumatologie, and INSERM U 1059, Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet, CHU de St-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Appropriate care of patients with a recent painful osteoporotic vertebral fracture (VF) requires immobilisation, analgesics and spinal orthoses. Some VFs are however responsible for disabling pain and prolonged bed rest. In this context, vertebroplasty techniques have been proposed with a large benefit in case series and open-label randomised studies, but lack efficacy in three among four double-blind randomised studies. The objectives of the treatment of a recent painful VF are to relieve pain and to preserve mechanical conditions. With this in mind, we report an experts' opinion paper on the indications for vertebroplasty and research agenda for clinical studies.

Indexed as

Fractures, CompressionSpinal FracturesVertebroplastyBone CementsHumansQuality of LifeRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicBone Cementslow back painmagnetic resonance imagingosteoporosis

Identifiers

PMID34193518
PMCPMC8246346

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