Provocative discography screening improves surgical outcome

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 125, Issue 19-20, 2013, Pages 600-610

  Margetic, Petra ^a   Pavic, Roman ^a,b   Stancic, Marin F ^c  

^a Klinika za traumatologiju Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Degenerative disc disease; Low back pain; Provocative discography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISKOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT FORM 36; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; CROATIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84886949797     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: 16137671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-013-0404-5     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Adams MA, Dolan P, Hutton WC. The stages of disc degeneration as revealed by discograms. JBJS. 1986;68B:36-41.
2. Bernard T Jr. Lumbar discography followed by computed tomography refining the diagnosis of low back pain. Spine. 1990;15:690-707.
3. Birney T, White J, Berens D. Comparison of MRI and discography in the diagnosis of lumbar degenerative disc disease. J Spinal Disord. 1992;5:417-23.
4. Brox JI, Reikeras O, Nygaaard O. Lumbar instrumented fusion compared with cognitive intervention and exercises in patients with chronic back pain after previous surgery for disc herniation: a prospective randomized controlled study. Pain. 2006;122:145-55.
5. Brox JI, Sorensen R, Friis A. Randomised clinical trial of lumbar instrumented fusion and cognitive intervention and exercises in patients with chronic low back pain and disc degeneration. Spine. 2003;28:1913-21.
6. Buirski G. Magnetic resonance signal patterns of lumbar discs in patients with low back pain. A prospective study with discographic correlation. Spine. 1992;17:1199-204.
7. Carragee E, Lincoln T, Parmar V. A gold standard evaluation of the "discogenic pain" diagnosis as determined by provocative discography. Spine. 2006;31(18):2115-23.
8. Carragee E, Tanner C, Yang B. False-positive findings on lumbar discography. Reliability of subjective concordance assessment during provocative disc injection. Spine. 1999;24(23):2542-7.
9. Carragee EJ, Tanner CM, Khurana S, Hayward C, Welsh J, Date E. The rates of false-positive lumbar discography in select patients without low back symptoms. Spine. 2000;25(11):1373-81.
10. Carragee EJ, Don AS, Hurwitz EL, Cuellar JM, Carrino JA, Herzog R. Does discography cause accelerated progression of degeneration changes in the lumbar disc: a ten-year matched cohort study. Spine. 2009;34(21):2338-45.
11. Chen JY, Ding Y, Lv RY, Liu QY, Huang JB, Yang ZH. Correlation between MR imaging and discography with provocative concordant pain in patients with low back pain. Clin J Pain. 2011;27(2):125-30.
12. Cloward R. Multiple ruptured discs. Ann Surg. 1995;142:190-5.
13. Colhoun E, McNall I, Williams L. Provocation discography as a guide to planning operations on the spine. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1988;70(2):267-71.
14. Collis J, Gardner W. Lumbar discography. An analysis of 600 degenerated disks and diagnosis of degenerative disk disease. JAMA. 1961;178:67-70.
15. Fairbank J, Frost H, Wilson-MacDonald J. Randomised controlled trial to compare surgical stabilisation of the lumbar spine with an intensive rehabilitation programme for patients with chronic low back pain: the MRC spine stabilisation trial. BMJ. 2005;330:1233.
16. Fardon DF, Milette PC. Nomenclature and classification of lumbar disc pathology. Recommendation of the combined task forces of the North American Spine Society, American Society of Spine Radiology and American Society of Neuroradiology. Spine. 2001;5:E93-113.
17. Feinberg S. The place of discography in radiology as based on 2,320 cases. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1964;92:1275-81.
18. Guyer R, Collier R, Stith W. Discitis after discography. Spine. 1988;13(12):1352-4.
19. Guyer R, Ohnmeiss D. Lumbar discography. Position statement from NASS diagnostic and therapeutic committee. Spine. 1995;20(18):2048-59.
20. Guyer RD, Ohnmeiss DD. Lumbar discography. Spine J. 2003;3(3):11-27.
21. Holt E Jr. The question of lumbar discography. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1968;50:720-6.
22. Kang CH, Kim YH, Lee SH, Derby R, Kim JH, Chung KB. Can magnetic resonance imaging accurately predict concordant pain provocation during provocative disc injection? Skeletal Radiol. 2009;38(9):877-85.
23. Kim KY, Kim YT, Lee CS, Shin MJ. MRI classification of lumbar herniated intervertebral disc. Orthopedics. 1992;15(4):493-7.
24. Kramer J. A new classification of lumbar motion segment for microdiscectomy. Eur Spine J. 1995;4:327.
25. Lindblom K. Diagnostic puncture of the intervetebral disc in sciatica. Acta Orthop Scand. 1948;17:213-39.
26. Madan S, Gundanna M, Harley J. Does provocative discography screening of discogenic back pain improve surgical outcome? J Spinal Disord Tech. 2002;12(3):245-51.
27. Manchikanti L, Singh V, Pampati V, Fellows B, Beyer C, Damron K. Provocative discography in low back pain patients with or without somatization disorder: a randomized prospective evaluation. Pain Physician. 2001;4(3):227-39.
28. Milette PC. Classification, diagnostic imaging and imaging characterization of a lumbar herniated disk. Radiol Clin North Am. 2000;38:126.
29. Molinari RW. Lumbar pedicle screw placement. In: Vaccaro AR, Todd JA (Editors). Spine surgery. Tricks of the trade. New York, Stuttgart: Thieme, 2009. pp. 129-32.
30. Resnick DK, Malone DG, Ryken TC. Guidelines for the use of discography for the diagnosis of painful degenerative lumbar disc disease. Neurosurg Focus. 2002;13(2):1-9.
31. Resnick DK, Choudhri TF, Dailey AT, Groff MW, Khoo L, Matz PG. Guidelines for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 6: magnetic resonance imaging and discography for patient selection for lumbar fusion. J Neurosurg Spine. 2005;2(6):662-9.
32. Sachs BL, Vanharanta H, Spivey MA, Guyer RD, Videman A, Rashbaum R. Dallas discogram description. A new classification of CT/discography in low-back disorders. Spine. 1987;12:287-94.
33. Schellhas K, Pollei S, Gundry C. Lumbar disc high-intensity zone. Correlation of magnetic resonance imaging and discography. Spine. 1996;21(1):79-86.
34. Thalgott JS, Albert TJ, Vaccaro AR, Aprill CN, Giuffre JM, Drake JS. A new classification system for degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine based on magnetic resonance imaging, provocative discography, plain radiographs and anatomic considerations. The Spine Journal. 2004;4:167-72.
35. Todd JA, Fleischut PM. Transforaminal and posterior lumbar interbody fusion. In: Vaccaro AR, Albert TJ (Editors). Spine surgery. Tricks of the trade. New York, Stuttgart: Thieme, 2009. p. 132-5.
36. Tomecek FJ, Anthony S, Boxell C, Warren J. Discography interpretation and techniques in the lumbar spine. Neurosurg Focus. 2002;13(2):1-8.
37. Vaccaro AR, Albert TJ, Editors. Spine surgery. Tricks of the trade. New York, Stuttgart:Thieme; 2009.