Symptomatic lumbar facet joint synovial cysts: Clinical assessment of facet joint steroid injection after 1 and 6 months and long-term follow-up in 30 patients

Radiology

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 509-513

  Parlier Cuau, Caroline ^a   Wybier, Marc ^a   Nizard, Rémy ^a   Champsaur, Pierre ^b   Le Hir, Pierre ^c   Laredo, Jean Denis ^a  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Interventional procedures; Spine, cysts; Spine, facet joints; Steroids

Indexed keywords

CORTIVAZOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISCHIALGIA; MALE; NEURALGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEROID THERAPY; SYNOVECTOMY; SYNOVIAL CYST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032955435     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.210.2.r99fe60509     Document Type: Article

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