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Percutaneous Vertebroplasty Compared with Optimal Pain Medication Treatment: Short-Term Clinical Outcome of Patients with Subacute or Chronic Painful Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures. The VERTOS Study

M.H.J. Voormolen^a, W.P.T.M. Mali^c, P.N.M. Lohle^a, H. Fransen^e, L.E.H. Lampmann^a, Y. van der Graaf^g, J.R. Juttmann^b, X. Jansssens^f and H.J.J. Verhaar^d

^a Department of Radiology, St Elisabeth Ziekenhuis, Tilburg, the Netherlands
^b Department of Internal Medicine, St Elisabeth Ziekenhuis, Tilburg, the Netherlands
^c Department of Radiology, Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, the Netherlands
^d Department of Geriatric Medicine, Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, the Netherlands
^e Departments of Radiology, Algemeen Ziekenhuis St Lucas, Gent, Belgium
^f Department of Rheumatology, Algemeen Ziekenhuis St Lucas, Gent, Belgium
^g Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht, the Netherlands

View larger version (20K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Fig 1. Randomization scheme in 34 patients randomized in either the percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) treatment arm (n = 18 patients) or the optimal pain medication (OPM) treatment arm (n = 16 patients). After 2 weeks of treatment, 14 patients treated by OPM requested treatment by PV and 2 patients continued the OPM treatment.