Spinal balloon nucleoplasty: A hypothetical minimally invasive treatment for herniated nucleus pulposus

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1201-1206

  Basaran, Ahmet ^a   Topatan, Sena ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HAYDARPASA NUMUNE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHYMOPAPAIN;

ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LOW BACK PAIN; NERVE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL BALLOON NUCLEOPLASTY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

BALLOON DILATATION; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

EID: 43049169902     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.09.018     Document Type: Article

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