Table 4.
Details of balloon kyphoplasty- and conservatively-treated patients
| Variable | Adjacent fracture - (n=48) | Adjacent fracture + (n=23) |
p-value |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Univariate | Multivariate | |||
| Age (yr) | 80.5±6.7 | 81.2±6.8 | 0.62 | 0.41 |
| Sex | 0.78 | 0.17 | ||
| Male | 15 | 6 | ||
| Female | 33 | 17 | ||
| Amount of cement | 8.0±5.5 | 9.4±3.8 | 0.12 | 0.11 |
| Cement leak | (+) 21, (-) 27 | (+) 13, (-) 10 | 0.45 | 0.21 |
| Site of fracture (%) | 0.55 | |||
| T5–10 | 4 | 8 | ||
| T11–L1 | 61 | 52 | ||
| L2–5 | 35 | 40 | ||
| Instability of vertebra | 7.2±4.6 | 10.3±5.5 | 0.049 | 0.046 |
Values are presented as mean±standard deviation or number.