AJNR - American Journal of Neuroradiology

PREVIOUS SPECIAL COLLECTIONS:

Imaging Acute Stroke and its Consequences

Collection Editors: Pamela W. Schaefer and R. Gilberto González

Acute Stroke Intervention

Collection Editors: Colin P. Derdeyn and Avi Mazumdar

JUST ADDED:

Percutaneous Vertebroplasty

Collection Editors: Mary E. Jensen and Joshua A. Hirsch

About 6 months ago, I asked Drs. Jensen and Hirsch to put together this Special Collection on vertebral augmentation. AJNR has published many of the seminal articles on this topic and continues to do so. Thus, there is a tremendous wealth of material that we all thought could be compiled into one source. Little did all of us know that destiny would “throw us a curve ball” on August 6, when the New England Journal of Medicine published the now famous (or infamous?) articles that attempted to debunk vertebroplasty as treatment for painful osteoporotic spinal fractures. Although these articles by Buchbinder et al and Kallmes et al were prospective and randomized ones, their design is not without flaws and they have elicited a considerable amount of controversy. VIEW THE FULL PREFACE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS

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