Lumbar disc nucleoplasty using coblation technology: Clinical outcome

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 288-292

  Azzazi, Alaa ^a   AlMekawi, Sherif ^a   Zein, Mostafa ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COBLATION TECHNOLOGY; DISKITIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR DISK NUCLEOPLASTY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADICULAR PAIN; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SYMPTOM; TREND STUDY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051741382     PISSN: 17598478     EISSN: 17598486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnis.2010.002402     Document Type: Article

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