The surgical treatment of disc degeneration: Is the race not to the swift?

Spine Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 587-588

  Carragee, Eugene J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 28044463113     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2005.09.007     Document Type: Editorial

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