ArticleSeminars in interventional radiology2010
Percutaneous treatment of intervertebral disc herniation.
Article in Seminars in interventional radiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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- Revolutionizing the treatment of intervertebral disc degeneration: an approach based on molecular typing.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- Pediatric lumbar disc herniation: A case series on diagnosis and management.Radiology case reports · 2023Article
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- Confluent abscesses in autochthonous back muscles after spinal injections : A case report and narrative review of the literature on low back pain and spinal injections.Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2022Review
- Characteristics and mechanisms of resorption in lumbar disc herniation.Arthritis research & therapy · 2022Review
- Intradiscal ozone therapy: fluoroscopic guidance reduces operative time in comparison with CT guidance in patients with lumbar disc herniation.La Radiologia medica · 2022Article
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- Percutaneous discectomy under CT and fluoroscopy guidance: an international multicentric study.Neuroradiology · 2021Article
- Image-guided percutaneous mechanical disc decompression for herniated discs: a technical note.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020Article
- Intervertebral Disc Diseases PART 2: A Review of the Current Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies for Intervertebral Disc Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Interventionist performs a "sham" lumbar microdiscectomy: Should interventionalists be performing spinal surgery?Surgical neurology international · 2020Article
- Overview on Percutaneous Therapies of Disc Diseases.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Review
- Percutaneous ozone nucleolysis for lumbar disc herniation.Neuroradiology · 2018Article
- Steroids Spinal Injections.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2018Review
- A review of percutaneous techniques for low back pain and neuralgia: current trends in epidural infiltrations, intervertebral disk and facet joint therapies.The British journal of radiology · 2016Review
- Comparison of open surgical discectomy versus plasma-laser nucleoplasty in patients with single lumbar disc herniation.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2015Article
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Abstract
Interventional radiology plays a major role in the management of symptomatic intervertebral disc herniations. In the absence of significant pain relief with conservative treatment including oral pain killers and anti-inflammatory drugs, selective image-guided periradicular infiltrations are generally indicated. The precise control of needle positioning allows optimal distribution of steroids along the painful nerve root. After 6 weeks of failure of conservative treatment including periradicular infiltration, treatment aiming to decompress or remove the herniation is considered. Conventional open surgery offers suboptimal results and is associated with significant morbidity. To achieve minimally invasive discal decompression, different percutaneous techniques have been developed. Their principle is to remove a small volume of nucleus, which results in an important reduction of intradiscal pressure and subsequently reduction of pressure inside the disc herniation. However, only contained disc herniations determined by computed tomography or magnetic resonance are indicated for these techniques. Thermal techniques such as radiofrequency or laser nucleotomy seem to be more effective than purely mechanical nucleotomy; indeed, they achieve discal decompression but also thermal destruction of intradiscal nociceptors, which may play a major role in the physiopathology of discal pain. The techniques of image-guided spinal periradicular infiltration and percutaneous nucleotomy with laser and radiofrequency are presented with emphasis on their best indications.
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