Intradiscal electrothermal treatment for chronic lower back pain patients with internal disc disruption

Yonsei Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 539-545

  Park, Si Young ^a   Moon, Seong Hwan ^a   Park, Moon Soo ^b   Kim, Hak Sun ^a   Choi, Youn Jin ^a   Lee, Hwan Mo ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Back pain; Internal disc disruption; Intradiscal electrothermal treatment (IDET)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISKOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROVOCATION TEST; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 24644512183     PISSN: 05135796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2005.46.4.539     Document Type: Article

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