Failed back surgery syndrome: Casuistic and etiology

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 64, Issue 3 B, 2006, Pages 757-761

  Rodrigues, Flávio Freinkel ^a,b   Dozza, Diego Cassol ^a   De Oliveira, Claudio Russio ^a   De Castro, Ricardo Gomes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Back pain; Discectomy; Epidural fibrosis; Failed back surgery syndrome; Recurrent disc herniation; Spinal stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; STENOSIS; SURGEON; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33750230971     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2006000500011     Document Type: Review

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