Recurrent pain after lumbar discectomy: The diagnostic value of peridural scar on MRI

European Spine Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 475-479

  Vogelsang, Jens P ^a   Finkenstaedt, Michael ^b   Vogelsang, Monika ^b   Markakis, Evangelos ^b  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Neurochirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diagnostic injections; Failed back syndrome; Lumbar discectomy; MRI; Peridural scar

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LEG MOVEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCAR FORMATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CICATRIX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATICA;

EID: 0033389046     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005860050208     Document Type: Article

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