Postdiskogram CT features of lidocaine-sensitive and lidocaine-insensitive severely painful disks at provocation lumbar diskography

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1455-1460

  Bartynski, Walter S ^a   Rothfus, W E ^a   Kurs Lasky, M ^b  

^a PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISKOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; SPINAL PAIN;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LIDOCAINE; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51649101346     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1151     Document Type: Article

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