Percutaneous carbon dioxide laser nucleolysis with 2- to 5-year followup

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 337, Issue , 1997, Pages 45-48

  Nerubay, Jacobo ^a,b   Caspi, Israel ^a,b   Levinkopf, Moshe ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030976091     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199704000-00006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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