Clinical and Electromyographic Evaluation After Chemonucleolysis* for Lumbar Disk Disease

Computed tomography and chymopapain chemonucleolysis: preliminary findings

“…Over the past decade chemonucleolysis therapy in selected cases of lumbosacral herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP) has gained increasing acceptance as an alternative to surgical diskectomy, laminectomy , and fusion [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Several recent largescale clinical evaluations have reported 70%-74% improvement rates in symptoms and signs after chemonucleolysis [9][10][11][12][13] compared with a 41 % improvement rate after placebo intradiskal injections [14].…”