The Rates of False-Positive Lumbar Discography in Select Patients Without Low Back Symptoms
Spine2000Vol. 25(11), pp. 1373–1381
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Eugene J. Carragee, Cary M. Tanner, Sanjay Khurana, Chris Hayward, John P. Welsh, Elaine S. Date, Thao Truong, Michael J. Rossi, Chad Hagle
Abstract
If strict criteria are applied, the rate of false-positive discography may be low in subjects with normal psychometric profiles and without chronic pain. Significantly painful injections were very common in subjects with annular disruption and chronic pain or abnormal psychometric testing.
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