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Subsequent fracture incidence stratified
| Subsequent Fractures | Cortoss |
PMMA |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adjacent | Non-Adjacent | Adjacent | Non-Adjacent | |
| No. (%) of patients with ≥1 Fx | 30 (18.5%) | 26 (16.0%) | 19 (20.2%) | 16 (17.0%) |
| No. (%) of first-time patients with Fxa | 7 (10.3%) | 6 (8.8%) | 8 (18.2%) | 6 (13.6%) |
| % Difference C < P | 43.4% | 35.3% | ||
Note:—Fx indicates fracture; C, Cortoss; P, PMMA.
Patients originally treated at 1 level with no previous fractures: C = 68, P = 44.
