-How does one question a patient who is suffering still after lumbar disk surgery, before using computed tomography or MRI of the spine?-.
Interrogation of patients still painful after lumbar intervertebral disk surgery provides with a series of informations each of them having only an indicative value, while they altogether compound a score helping assess the presence or the absence of a recurring disk herniation.
Wybier
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Service de Radiologie Ostéo-Articulaire, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris.
Parlier
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Champsaur
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Laredo
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D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000601:surgery*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010146:Pain / Q000601:surgery; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011182:Postoperative Care; D012008:Recurrence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed