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3581560

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
219
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-7-6
pubmed:abstractText
Fifty consecutive patients treated with chymopapain injection for a clinical and radiographic diagnosis of herniated nucleus pulposus were evaluated prospectively. All patients had a prechymopapain computed tomography (CT) scan and a three-month postinjection CT scan. In addition, ten patients (20%) had a six-month postinjection CT scan. All scans were interpreted blindly. Only six patients (12%) had obvious changes in the size of the disc when preinjection and three-month postinjection CT scans were compared. By six months, however, seven of ten patients (70%) had obvious changes in their CT scan. Seven patients (14%) were considered chymopapain treatment failures and were later treated with surgical discectomy. Only two of these seven patients (30%) had obvious changes in their three-month CT scan. Chymopapain injection did not alter the size of the herniated portion of the disc during the first three months after chymopapain injection. A decision to operate for presumed chymopapain failure should therefore be based on clinical grounds, rather than on the three-month CT appearance of the herniated disc.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0009-921X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
120-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Computed tomography scanning after chymopapain injection for herniated nucleus pulposus. A prospective study.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article