Intraspinal steroids: History, efficacy, accidentality, and controversy with review of united states food and drug administration reports

Neurosurgery Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 276-289

  Nelson, D A ^a   Landau, W M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; BETAMETHASONE; COCAINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; PROCAINE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARACHNOIDITIS; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STEROID THERAPY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0035185554     PISSN: 10506438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013414-200112000-00004     Document Type: Review

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