Etiology of long-term failures of lumbar spine surgery

Pain Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 18-22

  Waguespack, Alexis ^a   Schofferman, Jerome ^a,b   Slosar, Paul ^a   Reynolds, James ^a  

^a San Francisco Spine Institute   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discogenic pain; Failed back surgery; Foraminal stenosis; Neuropathic pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISKOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSEUDARTHROSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0036096539     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4637.2002.02007.x     Document Type: Article

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