MRI analysis of the lumbar spine: Can it predict response to diagnostic and therapeutic facet procedures?

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 110-115

  Stojanovic, Milan P ^a   Sethee, Jai ^a   Mohiuddin, Meraj ^a   Cheng, Jianguo ^b   Barker, Amanda ^c   Wang, Jing ^d   Palmer, William ^e   Huang, Ambrose ^e   Cohen, Steven P ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Musculoskeletal Imaging ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Facet; MRI; RF denervation; Spinal stenosis; Zygapophysial joint

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; OPIATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DENERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DORSAL ROOT; FACET JOINT DEGENERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; JOINT DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR FACET JOINT PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL BRANCH BLOCK; MEDICAL RECORD; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY DENERVATION; RADIOLOGIST; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; ZYGAPOPHYSIAL JOINT PAIN;

EID: 75649149492     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e3181b8cd4d     Document Type: Article

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