Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Article Report
  • Published:

Author response to “Kyphoplasty is not a nonpharmacologic management option for the minimization of fracture risk in osteoporosis”

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology volume 4, page E2 (2008)Cite this article

An Article Report to this article was published on 01 May 2008

Access through your institution
Buy or subscribe

Response to: McKiernan FE (2008) Kyphoplasty versus vertebroplasty for management of osteoporosis. Nat Clin Pract Rheum 4: E1 doi:10.1038/ncprheum0792

Original article: Lin JT and Lane JM (2008) Nonpharmacologic management of osteoporosis to minimize fracture risk. Nat Clin Pract Rheum 4: 20–25

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Access through your institution

Buy this article

  • Purchase on SpringerLink
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. Lin JT and Lane JM (2008) Nonpharmacologic management of osteoporosis to minimize fracture risk. Nat Clin Pract Rheum 4: 20–25

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Moon E-S et al. (2007) The incidence of new vertebral compression fractures in women after kyphoplasty and factors involved. Yonsei Med J 48: 645–652

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Tanigawa N et al. (2006) Radiological follow-up of new compression fractures following percutaneous vertebroplasty. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 29: 92–96

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Kasperk C et al. (2005) Treatment of painful vertebral fractures by kyphoplasty in patients with primary osteoporosis: a prospective nonrandomized controlled study. J Bone Miner Res 20: 604–612

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Weikopf M et al. (2008) Intravertebral pressure during vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty: an in vitro study. Spine 33: 178–182

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70th Street, New York, 10021, NY, USA

    Joseph M Lane & Julie T Lin

Authors
  1. Joseph M Lane
    View author publications

    Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Julie T Lin
    View author publications

    Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Joseph M Lane.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Lane, J., Lin, J. Author response to “Kyphoplasty is not a nonpharmacologic management option for the minimization of fracture risk in osteoporosis”. Nat Rev Rheumatol 4, E2 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncprheum0793

Download citation

  • Issue date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncprheum0793

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing