Percutaneous lumbar disc decompression

Pain Physician

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-146

  Singh, Vijay ^a   Derby, Richard ^b,c  

^a Pain Diagnostics Associates   (United States)

^b Spinal Diagnostics and Treatment Center   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompressor; Disc herniation; Discogenic pain; IDET ; Internal disc disruption; LASE ; Nucleoplasty; Nucleotome; Percutaneous lumbar disc decompression

Indexed keywords

CHYMOPAPAIN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; CHEMONUCLEOLYSIS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; DISKOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LASER COAGULATION; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33646537450     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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