Epidural corticosteroid therapy for back and leg pain: Questions of efficacy and action

Pain Digest

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 153-160

  McLain, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCORTISONE; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROCAINE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

BACKACHE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISCHIALGIA; LEG PAIN; REVIEW;

EID: 0029972132     PISSN: 09389016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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