Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 21, Issue 6 , Pages 856-860 , June 2010

Incident Vertebral Fractures in Patients not Undergoing Vertebroplasty

Received 28 April 2008 ,Revised 4 February 2010 ,Accepted 11 February 2010.

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 D.F.K. is a paid consultant for Bone Support (Chanhassen, Minnesota) and has received funding for research from Arthrocare (Sunnyvale, California), Cardinal (Dublin, Ohio), and Stryker (Kalamazoo, Michigan). Neither of the other authors has identified a conflict of interest.

PII: S1051-0443(10)00199-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2010.02.012

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 21, Issue 6 , Pages 856-860 , June 2010