Postdiskogram CT features of lidocaine-sensitive and lidocaine-insensitive severely painful disks at provocation lumbar diskography

WS Bartynski, WE Rothfus… - American journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: At lumbar diskography, intradiskal lidocaine can eliminate
or reduce provoked diskogenic pain. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the …

Pain improvement after intradiskal lidocaine administration in provocation lumbar diskography: association with diskographic contrast leakage

WS Bartynski, WE Rothfus - American journal of …, 2007 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Our aim was to evaluate the relationship of pain reduction,
after intradiskal lidocaine administration during provocation lumbar diskography, to the …

Enhancing annular fissures and high-intensity zones: pain, internal derangement, and anesthetic response at provocation lumbar discography

WS Bartynski, V Agarwal, H Trang… - American Journal …, 2023 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: A high-intensity zone identified on preprocedural MR
imaging is known to correlate with pain at provocation lumbar discography. The correlation …

Interventional assessment of the lumbar disk: provocation lumbar diskography and functional anesthetic diskography

WS Bartynski, AO Ortiz - Techniques in Vascular and Interventional …, 2009 - Elsevier
The diagnosis of diskogenic low back pain (LBP) can be elusive. Physical examination of
the lumbar disk is limited and imaging offers few objective clues. While invasive, lumbar …

Peripheral disc margin shape and internal disc derangement: imaging correlation in significantly painful discs identified at provocation lumbar discography

WS Bartynski, WE Rothfus - Interventional Neuroradiology, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Annular margin shape is used to characterize lumbar disc abnormality on CT/MR imaging
studies. Abnormal discs also have internal derangement including annular degeneration …

Are outer annular fissures stimulated during diskography the source of diskogenic low-back pain? An analysis of analgesic diskography data

MJ DePalma, JE Lee, L Peterson, L Wolfer… - Pain …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Objective. This study aimed to clarify whether painful annular fissures stimulated during
provocation diskography are the likely source of diskogenic pain. Design. A retrospective …

Painful lumbar disk derangement: relevance of endplate abnormalities at MR imaging

D Weishaupt, M Zanetti, J Hodler, K Min, B Fuchs… - Radiology, 2001 - pubs.rsna.org
PURPOSE: To investigate the predictive value of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of
abnormalities of the lumbar intervertebral disks, particularly with adjacent endplate changes …

Comparison of four different analgesic discogram protocols comparing the incidence of reported pain relief following local anesthetic injection into concordantly …

R Derby, CN Aprill, JE Lee, MJ DePalma… - Pain …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Objective To compare the incidence of pain relief following injection of local anesthetic (LA)
into lumbar discs that caused concordant pain during provocation testing. Design …

Radiating pain to the lower extremities caused by lumbar disk rupture without spinal nerve root involvement.

PC Milette, S Fontaine, L Lepanto… - American journal of …, 1995 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
PURPOSE To locate the origin of the pain during lumbar diskography by means of a limited
intradiskal injection of a local anesthetic. METHODS Lumbar diskography by the direct …

Painful lumbar end-plate disruptions: a significant discographic finding

KENY HSU, JF ZUCHERMAN, R DERBY, AH WHITE… - Spine, 1988 - journals.lww.com
Of the 692 discs injected during lumbar discograms, end-plate disruptions with leakage of
contrast material into the vertebral bodies were noted in 14 discs. Although gentle pressure …