Pain patterns in lumbar disc hernia. Drawings compared to surgical findings in 159 patients

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 470-472

  Brismar, Harald ^a   Vucetic, Nikola ^a   Svensson, Olle ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 0029851723     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453679608996670     Document Type: Article

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