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Provocative discography: Current status
Low back pain is a common clinical problem that may be due to a variety of causes, including disc disease. Provocative discography is an imaging-guided procedure in which a contrast agent is injected into the nucleus pulposus of the disc. Despite its controversial history, it remains the only imaging technique that provides both anatomical and functional information about a diseased disc. Disc ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1823-5530
DOI: 10.2349/biij.1.1.e2