 Sciatica
"Sciatica" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A condition characterized by pain radiating from the back into the buttock and posterior/lateral aspects of the leg. Sciatica may be a manifestation of SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; RADICULOPATHY (involving the SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; L4, L5, S1, or S2, often associated with INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT); or lesions of the CAUDA EQUINA.
| Descriptor ID |
D012585
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.617.682.800 C10.668.829.500.675.800 C10.668.829.600.800 C23.888.592.612.664.800 C23.888.646.508.800
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| Concept/Terms |
Sciatica- Sciatica
- Sciatic Neuralgia
- Neuralgia, Sciatic
- Neuralgias, Sciatic
- Sciatic Neuralgias
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sciatica" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Sciatica" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Sciatica" by people in Profiles.
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Cohen SP, White RL, Kurihara C, Larkin TM, Chang A, Griffith SR, Gilligan C, Larkin R, Morlando B, Pasquina PF, Yaksh TL, Nguyen C. Epidural steroids, etanercept, or saline in subacute sciatica: a multicenter, randomized trial. Ann Intern Med. 2012 Apr 17; 156(8):551-9.
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Dasenbrock HH, Juraschek SP, Schultz LR, Witham TF, Sciubba DM, Wolinsky JP, Gokaslan ZL, Bydon A. The efficacy of minimally invasive discectomy compared with open discectomy: a meta-analysis of prospective randomized controlled trials. J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 May; 16(5):452-62.
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Missmer SA, Bove GM. A pilot study of the prevalence of leg pain among women with endometriosis. J Bodyw Mov Ther. 2011 Jul; 15(3):304-8.
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Atlas SJ, Tosteson TD, Blood EA, Skinner JS, Pransky GS, Weinstein JN. The impact of workers' compensation on outcomes of surgical and nonoperative therapy for patients with a lumbar disc herniation: SPORT. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2010 Jan 1; 35(1):89-97.
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Santiago-Palma J, Jimenez J, Barna S, Messina K. Radicular pain in a patient with aqueductal cerebral stenosis. PM R. 2009 Sep; 1(9):884-6.
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Amaya F, Samad TA, Barrett L, Broom DC, Woolf CJ. Periganglionic inflammation elicits a distally radiating pain hypersensitivity by promoting COX-2 induction in the dorsal root ganglion. Pain. 2009 Mar; 142(1-2):59-67.
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Chien JJ, Bajwa ZH. What is mechanical back pain and how best to treat it? Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2008 Dec; 12(6):406-11.
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Pearson AM, Blood EA, Frymoyer JW, Herkowitz H, Abdu WA, Woodward R, Longley M, Emery SE, Lurie JD, Tosteson TD, Weinstein JN. SPORT lumbar intervertebral disk herniation and back pain: does treatment, location, or morphology matter? Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2008 Feb 15; 33(4):428-35.
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Mishra BK, Wu T, Belfer I, Hodgkinson CA, Cohen LG, Kiselycznyk C, Kingman A, Keller RB, Yuan Q, Goldman D, Atlas SJ, Max MB. Do motor control genes contribute to interindividual variability in decreased movement in patients with pain? Mol Pain. 2007; 3:20.
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Atlas SJ, Chang Y, Keller RB, Singer DE, Wu YA, Deyo RA. The impact of disability compensation on long-term treatment outcomes of patients with sciatica due to a lumbar disc herniation. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2006 Dec 15; 31(26):3061-9.
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