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Nucleoplasty with or without intradiscal electrothermal therapy (IDET) as a treatment for lumbar herniated disc.

The different outcomes of patients with disc herniation treated either by microdiscectomy, or by intradiscal ozone injection.

Osteogenic protein-1 is most effective in stimulating nucleus pulposus and annulus fibrosus cells to repair their matrix after chondroitinase ABC-induced in vitro chemonucleolysis.

CT-guided oxygen-ozone treatment for first degree spondylolisthesis and spondylolysis.

Ozone chemonucleolysis in non-contained lumbar disc herniations: a pilot study with 12 months follow-up.

Intradiscal injection of oxygen-ozone gas mixture for the treatment of cervical disc herniations.

[Purification of chymopapain and its effect on nucleus pulposus in vitro].

[Treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc displacement with chondroitinase ABC--experimental basis for clinical application].

Lumbar radicular pain.

Treatment of herniated lumbar disc by intradiscal and intraforaminal oxygen-ozone (O2-O3) injection.

Minimally invasive spinal surgery: a historical perspective.

Spinal flexibility increase after chymopapain injection is dose dependent: a possible alternative to anterior release in scoliosis.

Percutaneous disc decompression in the management of chronic low back pain.

Assessing observational studies of spinal fusion and chemonucleolysis.

Medium to long-term functional outcome of patients after chemonucleolysis.

Minimalism: is less more?

Current concepts in minimally invasive discectomy.

Predictors of successful outcome for lumbar chemonucleolysis: analysis of 3000 cases during the past 14 years.

Ultrasound nucleolysis: an in vitro study.

Should we accept to stop using chymopapain nucleolysis?