Bone scintigraphy for the diagnosis of the responsible level of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures in percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty.

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

This study was to investigate the efficacy of bone scintigraphy in order to diagnose the correct level of vertebral compression fractures (VCF) for the severe back pain before balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) was performed.

Related collections

Author and article information

Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Clin Neurol Neurosurg

Title: Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1872-6968

ISSN (Print): 0303-8467

Publication date (Electronic): Jan 2017

Volume: 152

Affiliations

[1 ] Department of Neurosurgery, Kushiro Kojinkai Memorial Hospital, Kushiro City, Japan; Department of Neurosurgery, Tokushima University, Tokushima City, Japan. Electronic address: tokazaki1978@sirius.ocn.ne.jp.

[2 ] Department of Neurosurgery, Kushiro Kojinkai Memorial Hospital, Kushiro City, Japan.

[3 ] Department of Neurosurgery, Tokushima University, Tokushima City, Japan.

Article

Publisher Item ID: S0303-8467(16)30393-6

DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2016.11.007

PubMed ID: 27866033

SO-VID: 31e4d846-4ce5-418b-b40c-a812f86cf1c1

History

Keywords: Balloon kyphoplasty,Bone scintigraphy,Correct diagnosis,Earlier timing,Multi-level fractures,Vertebral compression fracture

Data availability:

Keywords: Balloon kyphoplasty, Bone scintigraphy, Correct diagnosis, Earlier timing, Multi-level fractures, Vertebral compression fracture

Bone scintigraphy for the diagnosis of the responsible level of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures in percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty.

Read this article at

Abstract

Related collections

Emerald: Responsible Management

Author and article information

Journal

Affiliations

Article

History

Comments

Comment on this article

Cited by 4