Percutaneous laser disc decompression: A 17-year experience

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 407-410

  Choy, Daniel S J ^a,b  

^a Laser Spine Center ^*  (United States)

^b Laser Spine Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANTIBIOTICS; DISEASES; LASER BEAMS; PATIENT MONITORING; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

ANESTHESIA; FLUOROSCOPIC CONTROL; HERNIATED DISC DISEASES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACKACHE; DECOMPRESSION; DISKITIS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FLUOROSCOPY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NERVE INJURY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TECHNIQUE; WORK RESUMPTION;

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

EID: 8644269575     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2004.22.407     Document Type: Review

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