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The overall axial spinal pain, as assessed through self-reporting of visual analog scale scores at 6 months postoperatively, improved from 9.04 \u00b1 1.4 to 4.34 \u00b1 2.3 (p = 0.026), with cervical fusion patients improving from 8.8 \u00b1 1.8 to 3.92 \u00b1 2.2 (p = 0.019) and lumbar fusion patients improving from 9.35 \u00b1 0.7 to 4.87 \u00b1 2.3 (p = 0.008).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n CT-SPECT may offer a diagnostic advantage over current imaging modalities in identifying the primary pain generator in patients with axial spinal pain.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2019.9.focus19608","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,6]],"date-time":"2019-12-06T18:18:22Z","timestamp":1575656302000},"page":"E18","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":30,"title":["Primary pain generator identification by CT-SPECT in patients with degenerative spinal disease"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"47","author":[{"given":"Gabriel C.","family":"Tender","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Neurosurgery and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Caroline","family":"Davidson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Neurosurgery and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jessica","family":"Shields","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Neurosurgery and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jared","family":"Robichaux","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Neurosurgery and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joe","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Radiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Clifford L.","family":"Crutcher","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Neurosurgery and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anthony M.","family":"DiGiorgio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Neurosurgery and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"key":"b1","series-title":"J Nucl Med Technol","first-page":"398","article-title":"SNMMI procedure standard for bone scintigraphy 4.0","volume":"46","author":"Bartel TB","year":"2018","unstructured":"Bartel TB, Kuruva M, Gnanasegaran G, Beheshti M, Cohen EJ, Weissman AF, : SNMMI procedure standard for bone scintigraphy 4.0. 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