Complications of percutaneous techniques used in the diagnosis and treatment of discogenic lower back pain

Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 157-163

  Kapural, Leonardo ^a   Cata, Juan P ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chymopapain; Intradiscal biacuplasty; Intradiscal electrothermal therapy; Nucleoplasty; Percutaneous disc decompression; Provocation discography

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHONDROITIN; CHYMOPAPAIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOSAMINE; IOHEXOL; OXACILLIN; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE HEXACETONIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLERGY; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PERCUTANEOUS DISK DECOMPRESSION; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; CALCIFICATION; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISKITIS; DISKOGRAPHY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL CALCIFICATION; HEATING; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTRADISKAL BIACUPLASTY; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCLE SPASM; MYELITIS; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOPLASTY COBLATION; PERCUTANEOUS DISK DECOMPRESSION; PERCUTANEOUS LASER DISK DECOMPRESSION; SPONDYLITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNCOPE; TROCAR;

EID: 34250846467     PISSN: 1084208X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.trap.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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