Disc space injection with marcaine as a method to evaluate painful nonunion of an interbody fusion device: a case report

Spine Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-78

  Ploumis, Avraam ^a   Pinto, Manuel R ^a   Schellhas, Kurt P ^b  

^a TWIN CITIES SPINE CENTER   (United States)

^b Center For Diagnostic Imaging Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Cage; Discography; Interbody fusion

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISKOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; PEDICLE SCREW; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845923240     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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