Background: Degenerative lumbar spinal surgery is preceded by diagnostic investigations, like clinical, radiological, neurophysiological ones. The presurgical evaluation is made easier by the concordance of the diagnostic investigations.
Chirchiglia Domenico, MD +3 more
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Chemonucleolysis for disc herniation: An updated review of the literature
Herniated intervertebral disc is one of the common causes of neck/low back pain and/or neuralgia. The vast majority of such symptoms improve with conservative treatments that include rest, medications, and physical therapy.
Mohamed Ezeldin* +4 more
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A diagnostic study in patients with sciatica establishing the importance of localization of worsening of pain during coughing, sneezing and straining to assess nerve root compression on MRI [PDF]
Purpose: To test whether the localization of worsening of pain during coughing, sneezing and straining matters in the assessment of lumbosacral nerve root compression or disc herniation on MRI.
Barzouhi, A. (Abdelilah) el +5 more
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2bRAD-M reveals differences in microbial communities between Modic changes and disc herniation
BackgroundModic changes are caused by various factors, such as degenerative processes, inflammation, biomechanical, genetic, and metabolic factors, infection, and smoking. Bacteria have been identified in human intervertebral discs by 16S rRNA sequencing;
Fang Yang +7 more
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Objective: An alternative novel form of surgical treatment for patients having prolapsed or bulging intervertebral disc, with or without associated osteophyte, related lumbar radiculopathy by “only fixation” or internal orthosis and aiming for segmental ...
Atul Goel +7 more
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Degeneration of the intervertebral disc with new approaches for treating low back pain. [PDF]
This review paper discusses the process of disc degeneration and the current understanding of cellular degradation in patients who present with low back pain.
Binch, AL +3 more
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The Comparison of Gabapentin and Amitriptilin Effectivity as Pain Therapy in Herniated Nucleus Pulposus [PDF]
Herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP) is one of peripheral neuropathic pain. Although concensus guidelines for the treatment of neuropathic pain are based on the results of the RCT studies, there are still gaps in the literatures.
Cahyaningsih, I. (Indriastuti) +2 more
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Transradicular lumbar disc herniation: An extreme variant of intraradicular disc herniation
Intradural or intraradicular lumbar disc herniation (IDH) is a relatively rare condition often diagnosed intraoperatively. We encountered an extreme variant of IDH - a transradicular herniation as the disc material extruded through the lumbar nerve root through a split essentially transecting the nerve root.
Kasliwal, Manish K, Shimer, Adam L
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Herniated disc disease: diagnostics [PDF]
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of herniated disc ...
Isaacs, Brandon, Pandya, Nirav
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Reoperation for herniated thoracic discs [PDF]
In this review the authors address the surgical strategies required to resect residual thoracic disc herniations. Fifteen patients who had undergone prior thoracic discectomy and who harbored residual or incompletely excised symptomatic thoracic discs were reviewed retrospectively.
C A, Dickman, D, Rosenthal, J J, Regan
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