Lumbar percutaneous KTP532 wavelength laser disc decompression and disc ablation in the management of discogenic pain

Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-13

  Knight, Martin ^a   Goswami, Ankul ^a  

^a Arbury Consulting Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NEUROLOGY; SURGERY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DISC ABLATION;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; TITANIUM; NEODYMIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISABILITY; DISKOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LASER SURGERY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONDYLOSIS; STENOSIS; X RAY; ADOLESCENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LASER SURGERY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEODYMIUM; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036176340     PISSN: 10445471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/104454702753474940     Document Type: Article

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