Early surgery or a wait-and-see policy in lumbosacral radicular syndrome: A randomized study;Vroeg opereren of langer afwachten voor het lumbosacraal radiculair syndroom: Een gerandomiseerd onderzoek

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 151, Issue 45, 2007, Pages 2512-2523

  Peul, W C ^a   Van Houwelingen, H C ^a   Van Den Hout, W B ^a   Brand, R ^a   Eekhof, J A H ^a   Tans, J T J ^b   Thomeer, R T W M ^a   Koes, B W ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; ISCHIALGIA; LEG PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL RADICULAR SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36249022561     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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