Alessandro Liguori, Federica Galli, Martina Gurgitano, Anna Borelli, Marco Pandolfi, Ferdinando Caranci, Alberto M Magenta Biasina, Giovanni G M Pompili, Claudia L Piccolo, Vittorio Miele, Carlo Masciocchi, Giampaolo Carrafiello
BACKGROUND AND AIM: The therapy for low back pain boasts different approaches; one of these is nucleoplasty. We wanted to assess the effectiveness of nucleoplasty both by clinical response both by MR imaging evaluation, including even extrusions larger than one third of the spinal canal. METHODS: Fifty-seven patients were treated with nucleoplasty in our hospital, 11 of these patients accepted both clinical and MRI evaluation after six months from treatment. The clinical evaluation was performed with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) of pain, scored before and after the procedure...
January 19, 2018: Acta Bio-medica: Atenei Parmensis