Modic changes and intradiscal steroids

Spine Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-110

  O'Neill, Conor ^a  

^a California Spine Diagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; STEROID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN; COMORBIDITY; DISKOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HUMAN; INSURANCE; LOW BACK PAIN; MODIC CHANGE; NARCOTIC DEPENDENCE; NOCICEPTION; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERTEBRA BODY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79751470104     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2010.08.032     Document Type: Note

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