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Article: Augmentation procedures for osteoporotic vertebral fractures--an ongoing experiment or emerging standard of care?(Editorial)
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- Southern Medical Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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The history of vertebral augmentation procedures is an interesting one. Vertebroplasty was first performed in France in 1984 and reported in a French language journal in 1987. (1) This publication did not create great international attention, but served to initiate further investigation by others. It was not until 1994 that the procedure was performed in the US. When a retrospective review of 47 vertebroplasties in 29 patients with osteoporotic vertebral fractures was published in an English language journal a few years later, (2) it set in motion a series of events that led to a paradigm shift in clinical thinking about the management of vertebral fractures--from "benign ...