Percutaneous laser disc decompression for the treatment of discogenic lumbar pain and sciatica: A preliminary report with 3-month follow-up in a general pain clinic population

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 434-438

  McMillan, Marion R ^a   Patterson, Pickens A ^a   Parker, Veronica ^b  

^a Foothills Regional Pain Center   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER SURGERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEODYMIUM; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; SCANNING;

LASER TREATMENTS; PERCUTANEOUS LASER DISC DECOMPRESSION (PLDD); SCIATICA;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANALGESIC AGENT;

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISKOGRAPHY; FACET BLOCK; FACET RHIZOTOMY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; NEODYMIUM LASER; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN CLINIC; PERCUTANEOUS LASER DISC DECOMPRESSION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHIZOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LASER SURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; RECURRENCE; SCIATICA; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8644251843     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2004.22.434     Document Type: Article

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