Percutaneous laser disc decompression: An update

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 393-406

  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

ARGON LASER; BACK MUSCLE; BONE NECROSIS; BURN; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION; DISKITIS; ECCHYMOSIS; EDITORIAL; ERBIUM YAG LASER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXPERIMENTATION; HEMATOMA; HISTORY; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE SPASM; NEODYMIUM LASER; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS LASER DISC DECOMPRESSION; PERFORATION; SACROILIITIS; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; VISCERA; VISCUS PERFORATION;

ANIMALS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LASER SURGERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PRESSURE; SPINAL STENOSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8644277996     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2004.22.393     Document Type: Editorial

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