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Acta Neurochirurgica
Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica 3/2011

01-03-2011 | Letter to the editor

Francis Murphey's theory on lumbar disc disease: upon reflection

Authors: Andreas K. Demetriades, Christina K. Demetriades

Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica | Issue 3/2011

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Excerpt

The authors seek to prove that Francis Murphey's theory, as it relates to discogenic low back pain, amounts to weak inductive reasoning and does not justify discography and intra-discal procedures, which should therefore be abandoned [1]. …
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Alemo S, Sayadipour A (2010) Sources and patterns of pain in lumbar disc disease; revisiting Francis Murphey's theory. Acta Neurochir Wien 152(9):1555–1558CrossRefPubMed
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Hilborn RC (2004) Sea gulls, butterflies, and grasshoppers: a brief history of the butterfly effect in nonlinear dynamics. Am J Phys 72:425–427CrossRef
Metadata
Title
Francis Murphey's theory on lumbar disc disease: upon reflection
Authors
Andreas K. Demetriades
Christina K. Demetriades
Publication date
01-03-2011
Publisher
Springer Vienna
Published in
Acta Neurochirurgica / Issue 3/2011
Print ISSN: 0001-6268
Electronic ISSN: 0942-0940
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-011-0943-3

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