Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. One of the most common fragility fracture and a fracture associated with increased morbidity and mortality is the vertebral compression fracture (Hasserius et al. 2005...

Kyphoplasty is a new procedure for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures that is being performed with increasing frequency. Representing the Technology Assessment Committee of the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, we present a review of the available information regarding this new technology.

STUDY DESIGN Multicenter randomized controlled trial. OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and safety of balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) with nonsurgical management (NSM) during 24 months in patients with painful vertebral compression fractures (VCFs). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Recently, several large randomized controlled trials have been conducted and reported how vertebral augmentation compares ...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Vertebral compression fractures are very common. Symptomatic relief with conservative therapy is often difficult to achieve. Balloon kyphoplasty is a relatively new technique which stabilises the vertebral body and restores spinal alignment in recent fractures, it achieves significant pain relief and improved functional outcome is reported. The aim of this prospective study...