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Cervical chymopapain nucleolysis: MR imaging assessment of chymopapain efficacy
F Gómez-Castresana1, C Vázquez Herrero, J L Baltés Horche
1Department of Surgery, Universidad Complutense (FG-C), Madrid, Spain.
Neurosurgery Clinics of North America
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Soft cervical disc herniations can be treated by minimally invasive procedures with excellent results. Chemonucleolysis with chymopapain is one alternative to surgery that is shown to be innocuous within a strict technical framework. MR imaging allows an accurate diagnosis of the cause of cervical root compression, thus facilitating the choice of conventional surgery or minimally invasive procedures.