We have read with interest the article by Khashab et al1 who reported a retrospective cohort
study of 22 patients with radicular pain without improvement of pain over a period of 6 …

Objectives: To investigate the pre-operative and post-operative characteristics of patients
suffering from chronic back and radicular pain who had percutaneous hydrodiscectomy …

Disc degeneration is very common, increasing with age, and ruptures certainly exist without
pain.*.*???? Recent MRI studies99 on 400 normal women demonstrated this fact very …

Low back pain has been a significant cause of disability. Disc pathology, such as
degenerative disc disease and instability, is believed to contribute to chronic low back pain …

Objective: to compare the efficiency of medical and surgical treatments for discogenic low
back radiculopathy. Patients and methods. 32 patients (including 13 men; mean age …

An estimated 40% of chronic lumbosacral spinal pain is attributed to the discus
intervertebralis. Degenerative changes following loss of hydration of the nucleus pulposus …

Background: Patients with lumbar disc disease may present with low back pain, pain that
radiates down to the lower extremity (radiculopathy), and leg pain that increases with …

Patients with an acute episode of low back pain, radicular symptoms, and evidence of a
herniated disc on imaging may experience short-term pain relief from discectomy if their …

We read the review on ''An evidence-based clinical guideline for the diagnosis and
treatment of lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy''by Kreiner at al.[1] with great interest …

Diskography (provocation diskography, disk stimulation) is an invasive diagnostic test
performed to confirm or exclude internal disk disruption as the cause of axial spine pain …