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Ablation of the sacroiliac joint using MR-guided high intensity focused ultrasound: a preliminary experiment in a swine model

BACKGROUND: Dysfunction of the Sacroiliac Joint (SIJ) is one of the key sources of low back pain. For prolonged pain relief, some patients undergo fluoroscopic guided radio-frequency (RF) ablation of SIJ, during which a number of RF probes are inserted to create thermal lesions that disrupt the post...

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Autores principales: Kaye, Elena A., Maybody, Majid, Monette, Sebastien, Solomon, Stephen B., Gulati, Amitabh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5483839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28652915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40349-017-0095-x