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D Pierron

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[Chronic low back pain and lumbar rhizotomy].

Spinal rhizotomy could be used for relief of chronic low back pain, in 287 selected patients suffering from facet joints. The procedure involves placing an electrode on close proximity to the posterior articular nerves to allow destruction by coagulation.

Adult

[Vertebral artery loop and cervical pain].

Diagnosis of a vertebral artery loop in the transverse canal, suggested by a CT scan image, is dependent mainly on results of angiography (preferably computer assisted and by the venous route). This lesion is a differential diagnosis of a neuroma, when the cervical intervertebral foramen is enlarged.

Adult

[Role of computed tomography in the diagnosis of complications of lumbar disk surgery].

Recurrence of symptomatology after diskectomy was investigated in 37 patients by computed tomography imaging. Local complications were mainly fibrous scar tissue formation and recurrence of disk lesions. Results showed the CT scan to be the most reliable exploratory procedure available at the present time, based on the quality of images obtained after intravenous iodized contrast injection.

Adult