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The authors present a series of 90 patients investigated using CT and MRI for recurrent lumbosciatic pain following disc surgery. Diagnostic conclusions based on CT sections alone were not apparent; CT was insufficient in one-third of cases. MRI combined with intravenous gadolinium can distinguish between ordinary postoperative scar tissue and a possible recurrent disc fragment. This study underlines the incidence of fibrosis combined with herniation (i.e. 46%).
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Krause, D., Drape, J.L., Boyer, P., Tongio, J. (1991). Recurrent herniations following surgery: the significance of MRI in 90 cases. In: du Boulay, G., Molyneux, A., Moseley, I. (eds) Proceedings of the XIV Symposium Neuroradiologicum. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49329-4_32
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