Treatment of discogenic low back pain with intradiscal electrothermal therapy (IDET): 24 months follow-up in 50 consecutive patients

Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum

Volumn , Issue 108, 2011, Pages 103-105

  Assietti, Roberto ^a   Morosi, Mario ^a   Migliaccio, Giovanni ^a   Meani, Luigi ^a   Block, Jon E ^b  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Back pain; Disc disruption; IDET; Intradiscal electrothermal therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISCOGENIC PAIN; DISKOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTRADISCAL ELECTROTHERMAL THERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; METHODOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952277251     PISSN: 00651419     EISSN: 00016268     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-99370-5_15     Document Type: Article

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