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Discography was first described by Lindblöm in 1948 in these words “Diagnostic disk puncture with injection of opaque medium demonstrates disk ruptures and protrusions and tells if the patient’s symptoms originate from the punctured disk. The method seems to be of great practical value”.
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Patton, J.T. (1989). Discography. In: Galasko, C.S.B., Isherwood, I. (eds) Imaging Techniques in Orthopaedics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1640-0_8
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