We regret that in Volume 35, Issue 1, 9–21, the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine published ‘Osteoporosis in paediatric patients with spina bifida’, Marreiros et al. with some missing and incorrect information.
A list of corrections is printed below and a complete correct version of the paper can be found at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/scm/2012/00000035/00000001/art00004
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Author names and affiliations should have read as follows:
Humberto Marreiros1, Clara Loff1, Eulalia Calado2
1Department of Paediatric Rehabilitation, Hospital Dona Estefânia, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Lisboa, Portugal
2Department of Paediatric Neurology, Hospital Dona Estefânia, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Lisboa, Portugal
Author correspondence details on should have read:
Correspondence to: Humberto Marreiros, Hospital Dona Estefânia, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Rua Jacinta Marto, 1169-045 Lisboa, Portugal.
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The passage reading: ‘For incidence risk factors of fractures excluded studies included patients without SB’, should have read:
‘For incidence risk factors of fractures, studies were excluded if included patients without SB’.
The bulleted list of searches used to analyse pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments should have read as follows:
• Spina Bifida
• Meningomyelocele
• Myelomeningocele
• Bone density
• Prevention
‘Myelomeningocele’[All Fields] OR ‘Spina bifida’[All Fields] OR ‘Meningomyelocele’[All Fields] AND ‘Bone density’[All Fields] AND ‘Prevention’[All Fields]
• Spinal Dysraphism
• Walking
• Bone and Bones
• ((‘Spinal Dysraphism’[Mesh] OR ‘Meningomyelocele’[Mesh]) AND ‘Walking’[Mesh]) AND ‘Bone and Bones’[Mesh]
• Bone
• Osteoporosis
• ‘Myelomeningocele’[All Fields] OR ‘Spina bifida’[All Fields] OR ‘Meningomyelocele’[All Fields] AND (‘Osteoporosis’[All Fields] OR (‘Bone’[All Fields] AND ‘Walking’[All Fields])) AND (‘humans’[MeSH Terms] AND English[lang] AND (‘1970/01/01’[PDAT]: ‘2011/06/10’[PDAT]))
• Vibration
• (‘Spinal Dysraphism’[Mesh] OR ‘Meningomyelocele’[Mesh]) AND ‘Vibration’[Mesh]
• Standing
• Vibrating platform
• ‘Myelomeningocele’[All Fields] OR ‘Spina bifida’[All Fields] OR ‘Meningomyelocele’[All Fields] AND (‘Osteoporosis’[All Fields] OR ‘Bone density’[All Fields]) AND (‘Standing’[All Fields] OR ‘Vibrating platform’[All Fields] OR ‘Vibration’[All Fields])
• Calcium
• (‘Spinal Dysraphism’[Mesh] OR ‘Meningomyelocele’[Mesh]) AND ‘Calcium’[Mesh]
• Vitamin D
• (‘Spinal Dysraphism’[Mesh] OR ‘Meningomyelocele’[Mesh]) AND ‘Vitamin D’[Mesh]
• Diphosphonates
• ((‘Spinal Dysraphism’[Mesh]) OR ‘Meningomyelocele’[Mesh]) AND ‘Diphosphonates’[Mesh]
• Treatment
• ‘Myelomeningocele’[All Fields] OR ‘Spina bifida’[All Fields] OR ‘Meningomyelocele’[All Fields] AND (‘Bone density’[All Fields] OR Osteoporosis [All Fields]) AND ‘Treatment’[All Fields]
• ‘Spina bifida’[All Fields] OR ‘Myelomeningocele’[All Fields] OR ‘Meningomyelocele’[All Fields] AND (‘Calcium’[All Fields] OR ‘Vitamin D’[All Fields] OR ‘Diphosphonates’[All Fields]) AND (‘1970/01/01’[PDAT] : ‘2011/06/10’[PDAT]) AND (‘humans’[MeSH Terms] AND English[lang])
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The passage reading ‘Because all of the studies were retrospective and because only a limited number of controlled studies’, should have read:
‘Because all of the studies had small sample sizes and because only a limited number of controlled studies’.
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The passage reading ‘The mean age of patients (9.1 years) was similar the patients in the study by Apkon et al.’, should have read:
‘The mean age of patients (9.1 years) was similar to the patients in the study by Apkon et al.’