Preliminary Italian experience of lumbar spine percutaneous laser disc decompression according to Choy's method

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 439-441

  Tassi, Gian Paolo ^a,b  

^a Casa di Cura Villa Anna ^*  (Italy)

^b Casa di Cura Pierangeli   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; OPERATING ROOMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; SAFETY FACTOR;

INVASIVE TECHNIQUES; PERCUTANEOUS LASER DISC DECOMPRESSION (PLDD);

LASER SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOY METHOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ITALY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MACNAB CRITERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PERCUTANEOUS LASER DISC DECOMPRESSION; SCORING SYSTEM; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; ITALY; LASER SURGERY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8644286610     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2004.22.439     Document Type: Article

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