Symptoms of spinal stenosis. Do not improve after epidural steroid injection

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 148-151

  Fukusaki, Makoto ^a   Kobayashi, Itsuko ^a   Hara, Tetsuya ^a   Sumikawa, Koji ^b  

^a NAGASAKI ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidural steroid; Lumbal; Pseudoclaudication; Spinal canal stenosis

Indexed keywords

MEPIVACAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLAUDICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MEPIVACAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NERVE BLOCK; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0031866510     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002508-199806000-00010     Document Type: Article

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