Immediate pain improvement is a useful predictor of long-term favorable outcome after percutaneous laser disc decompression for cervical disc herniation

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 508-513

  Lee, Sang Ho ^a   Ahn, Yong ^a   Choi, Won Chul ^a   Bhanot, Arun ^a   Shin, Song Woo ^a  

^a Gimpo Airport Wooridul Spine Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LASER DISC DECOMPRESSION; LASER-ASSISTED SPINAL ENDOSCOPY (LASE); PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; SOFT DISC HERNIATION;

LASER SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS LASER DISC DECOMPRESSION; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LASER SURGERY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750626057     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2006.24.508     Document Type: Review

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