Diagnosis of chronic radiating lower back pain without overt focal neurologic deficits: What is the value of segmental nerve blocks?

Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 577-585

  Wolff, André P ^a   Groen, Gerbrand J ^b   Wilder Smith, Oliver H G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic radiating back pain; Dorsal root ganglion; Spinal segmental nerve blocks (SNBs); Spinal segmental nerve injection therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; RADICULOPATHY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL NERVE;

EID: 22544486852     PISSN: 14750708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14750708.2.4.577     Document Type: Article

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