Landmark TrialRCTRandomized Controlled Trial
A Randomized Trial of Vertebroplasty for Osteoporotic Spinal Fractures
New England Journal of Medicine2009IF: 25.4
David F. Kallmes, Bryan A. Comstock, Patrick J. Heagerty, Judith A. Turner, David J. Wilson, Terry Diamond, Richard Edwards, Leigh A. Gray, Lydia Stout, Sara Owen, William Hollingworth, Basavaraj Ghdoke, Deborah J. Annesley-Williams, Stuart H. Ralston, Jeffrey G. Jarvik
Abstract
Improvements in pain and pain-related disability associated with osteoporotic compression fractures in patients treated with vertebroplasty were similar to the improvements in a control group. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00068822.)