radiculography
English
Etymology
radiculo- + -graphy
Noun
radiculography (plural radiculographies)
- Medical examination of spinal nerve roots, especially as a method of identifying prolapsed intervertebral discs
- 2015 August 21, Michaela Tomanova, Marcela Lippert-Grüner, Lenka Lhotska, “Specific rehabilitation exercise for the treatment of patients with chronic low back pain”, in Journal of Physical Therapy Science, volume 27, DOI: :
- According to Ricci et al., approximately 39% of patients suffer from herniated disc and do not describe any subjective complaints, and during radiculography protrusion of the intervertebral disc was found in 50% of cases and herniation of the disc in 24% of cases, data in a study on workers in the USA 8 ) .
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Related terms
- radiculographic