Therapeutic spinal corticosteroid injections for the management of radiculopathies

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 697-711

  Slipman, Curtis W ^a   Chow, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; META ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SYNOVIAL CYST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036696286     PISSN: 10479651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-9651(02)00004-9     Document Type: Review

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