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Article ID	#21220
Title	Direction of the evidence. Should discography be discontinued? [review of: Carragee EJ, Don AS, Hurwitz EL, Cuellar JM, Carrino J, Herzog R. Does Discography Cause Accelerated Progression of Degeneration Changes in the Lumbar Disc? A Ten-Year Matched Cohort Study. Spine 2009;34:2338-45.]
URL	http://www.acatoday.org/JacaDisplay1.cfm?CID=3882
Journal	JACA Online. 2010 Apr;47(3):Online access only p 29-31
Author(s)	Feise R
Peer Review	No
Publication Type	Review
Abstract/Notes	Dr. Feise asks, “Should Discography be discontinued?” He weighs the quality of a study in Spine that compared degenerative findings between lumbar discs injected 10 years earlier with those same disc levels in matched subjects not exposed to discography. This abstract is reproduced with permission of the publisher. Full text is available by subscription.
Subject(s)	Injections, Spinal / adverse effects Intervertebral Disc Degeneration / diagnostic imaging Low Back Pain / diagnosis

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