Pulsed radiofrequency in lumbar radicular pain: Clinical effects in various etiological groups

Pain Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-26

  Abejón, David ^a   Garcia del Valle, Santiago ^b   Fuentes, María Lorenza ^b   Gómez Arnau, Juan Ignacio ^b   Reig, Enrique ^c   van Zundert, Jan ^d  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

^c Clinica del Dolor de Madrid   (Spain)

^d Emergency Medicine and Multidisciplinary Pain Therapy   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dorsalroot ganglion; Failedback surgery; Pulsed radiofrequency; Radiofrequency thermocoagulation; Spinalstenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADICULAR PAIN; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL GANGLION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 33846995987     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2007.00105.x     Document Type: Article

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