The Significance of Multifidus Atrophy After Successful Radiofrequency Neurotomy for Low Back Pain

PM and R

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 719-722

  Dreyfuss, Paul ^a   Stout, Alison ^b   Aprill, Charles ^c   Pollei, Steve ^d   Johnson, Blake ^e   Bogduk, Nikolai ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Magnolia Diagnostics   (United States)

^d Center for Diagnostic Imaging   (United States)

^e Center For Diagnostic Imaging Minnesota   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MULTIFIDUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MYALGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY NEUROTOMY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

DENERVATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 68949137456     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.05.014     Document Type: Article

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