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Armed kyphoplasty-the future?
  1. Andrew D Brook1,
  2. Olivier Clerk-Lamalice2,
  3. Reade A De Leacy3,
  4. Allan L Brook4,
  5. Joshua A Hirsch5
  1. 1 Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
  2. 2 Interventional Spine Service, Beam Interventional & Diagnostic Imaging, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  3. 3 Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
  4. 4 Interventional Neuroradiology, Montefiore Medical center, Bronx, New York, USA
  5. 5 NeuroEndovascular Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  1. Correspondence to Andrew D Brook, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; andrew.brook{at}einsteinmed.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnis-2024-021575

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    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests OC – Consultant: Stryker, Medtronic, Medical Metrics, Simplify Medical, Regeltec, SpinaFx. Research Funding: Medical Metrics, Konica Minolta. Advisory Board: Regeltec, SpinaFx. RDL – Consultant: Stryker IVS, Stryker Neurovascular, Cerenovus, Imperative Care, Hyprevention, Scientia Vascular Research support: Kaneka medical, Siemens Healthineers, Hyprevention, SNIS foundation Equity: Synchron, Endostream, Borvo, Vastrax, Von Vascular, Q’Apel, Radical Catheter. ALB –Consultant: NEVRO, Medtronic, VIZ.AI, Boston Scientific. JH – Chair Health Policy Committee SNIS, Deputy Editor JNIS. Consultant: Medtronic, Relievant, VIZ.AI, Sanofi, Cerenovus. DMSB Chair: Balt, Rapid Medical, ArsenalGrant recipient: Neiman Health Policy Institute.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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