Two-year follow-up of a controlled trial of intradiscal electrothermal anuloplasty for chronic low back pain resulting from internal disc disruption

Spine Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 343-350

  Bogduk, Nicolai ^a   Karasek, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b Northwest Spine Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Back pain; Heating; Intervertebral disc; Intradiscal therapy; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CEFALOTIN; FENTANYL; MIDAZOLAM; OPIATE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISKITIS; DISKOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTRADISCAL ELECTROTHERMAL ANNULOPLASTY; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK RESUMPTION;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036759570     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1529-9430(02)00409-6     Document Type: Article

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