Percutaneous Laser Disk Decompression under CT and Fluoroscopic Guidance: Indications, Technique, and Clinical Experience

Radiographics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-96

  Gangi, Afshin ^a   Dietemann, Jean Louis ^a   Ide, Christophe ^a   Brunner, Philippe ^a   Klinkert, Antoine ^a   Warter, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

, 36.1269; Computed tomography (CT), guidance, 336.12119; Fluoroscopy, 336.1269; Lasers, Interstitial therapy, 336.1269; Spine, Interventional procedure; Spine, Intervertebral disks, 336.783

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LASER SURGERY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LASER SURGERY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029677146     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.16.1.89     Document Type: Article

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