Intraspinal lumbar synovial cysts: Diagnosis and surgical management

Surgeon

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 141-144

  Indar, Rupert ^a,b   Tsiridis, E ^a   Morgan, M ^a   Aldham, C H ^a   Hussein, A A ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facet joints; Osteoarthritis; Radicular pain; Surgical decompression; Synovial cysts

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BED REST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD CYST; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SYMPTOM; SYNOVIAL CYST; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042645652     PISSN: 1479666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1479-666X(04)80074-X     Document Type: Article

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