Development of complex regional pain syndrome after a cervical epidural steroid injection

Anesthesiology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1394-1396

  Siegfried, Richard N ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia, epidural; Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS); Pain; Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; IOHEXOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OMNIPAQUE 180; PHENTOLAMINE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; MIDDLE AGED; REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; STEROIDS;

EID: 0030939281     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199706000-00025     Document Type: Article

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