Cell types obtained from the epidural space of patients with low back pain/radiculopathy

Pain Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 167-172

  Heavner, James E ^a   Bosscher, Hemmo A ^a   Wachtel, Mitchell S ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytologic analysis; Epiduroscopy; Low back pain; Radicular pain

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL SPACE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADICULOPATHY; SPINDLE CELL; STENOSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIOPSY; BLOOD VESSELS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CICATRIX; ENDOSCOPY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; FIBROSIS; LEUKOCYTES; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADICULOPATHY; SACRUM; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 65449189681     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2009.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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