Alcalay M, Bontoux D, Vincent M H, Valat J P, Fouquet B, Brégeon C, Moneger M
Service de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Jean Bernard, Poitiers.
Rev Rhum Mal Osteoartic. 1988 Oct;55(10):741-5.
16 patients suffering from a herniated disc with purely lumbalgic manifestations were treated with chymopapain nucleolysis. The results were very good in 5 cases, good in 6 cases and poor in 5 cases. These data, along with those scattered in the literature, led us to consider nucleolysis as a treatment, probably valid, of a herniated disc in its purely lumbalgic form.