title: Lumbar disk compliance and degeneration.
abstract: Comparison between 242 intradiscal pressure/volume recordings and corresponding diskograms (performed at the same occasion) has shown a significant (p less than 0.01) correlation between disk compliance and the degree of diskographic degeneration. Intradiscal pressure/volume testing is a simple, reliable, and risk-free procedure that should precede every diskogram and be incorporated into the preoperative diagnostic routine of patients undergoing chemonucleolysis or percutaneous diskectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Free University of Berlin, West Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brock
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lutze
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003187:Compliance; D004322:Drainage; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007267:Injections; D007403:Intervertebral Disc / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007404:Intervertebral Disc Chemolysis; D008161:Lumbosacral Region; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011312:Pressure; D011859:Radiography; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D012965:Sodium Chloride