@article{246e9eb946bf4cd6b40c7979818d3f4c,
title = "Vertebral Augmentation: Is It Time to Get Past the Pain? A Consensus Statement from the Sardinia Spine and Stroke Congress",
abstract = "Vertebral augmentation has been used to treat painful vertebral compression fractures and metastatic lesions in millions of patients around the world. An international group of subject matter experts have considered the evidence, including but not limited to mortality. These considerations led them to ask whether it is appropriate to allow the subjective measure of pain to so dominate the clinical decision of whether to proceed with augmentation. The discussions that ensued are related below.",
keywords = "ablation, augmentation, future, kyphosis, pain, target, treatment, vertebroplasty",
author = "Hirsch, {Joshua A.} and Chiara Zini and Anselmetti, {Giovanni Carlo} and Francisco Ardura and Douglas Beall and Matteo Bellini and Allan Brook and Alessandro Cianfoni and Olivier Clerk-Lamalice and Bassem Georgy and Gianluca Maestretti and Luigi Manfr{\'e} and Mario Muto and Orlando Ortiz and Luca Saba and Alexis Kelekis and Filippiadis, {Dimitrios K.} and Stefano Marcia and Salvatore Masala",
note = "Funding Information: This work was in part supported by a grant from the Neiman Health Policy Institute. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 by the authors.",
year = "2022",
month = oct,
doi = "10.3390/medicina58101431",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "58",
journal = "Medicina (Lithuania)",
issn = "1010-660X",
publisher = "Kauno Medicinos Universitetas",
number = "10",
}