Histological changes and temperature distribution studies of a novel bipolar radiofrequency heating system in degenerated and nondegenerated human cadaver lumbar discs

Pain Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 68-75

  Kapural, Leonardo ^a   Mekhail, Nagy ^a   Hicks, David ^a   Kapural, Miranda ^a   Sloan, Steven ^a   Moghal, Nadeem ^a   Ross, Jeffrey ^a   Petrinec, Dejan ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biacuplasty; Degenerative disc Disease; IDET; Internal disc Disruption; Intervertebral disc; Intradiscal; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HEAT TREATMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK BIACUPLASTY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; LUMBAR DISCOGENIC PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; PATIENT SAFETY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERAPY EFFECT;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CADAVER; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HEAT; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 38949123085     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2007.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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