Injection therapies for soft-tissue disorders

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 167-181

  Speed, C A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Botulinum; Corticosteroid; Injection; Nerve block; Pain; Soft tissue; Tendon

Indexed keywords

ACTOVEGIN; ADRENALIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; BETAMETHASONE ACETATE; BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; BUPIVACAINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE ACETATE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; TRIAMCINOLONE HEXACETONIDE;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ANESTHESIA; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTHROPATHY; ATROPHY; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; BONE NECROSIS; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SOLUBILITY; DRUG UTILIZATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FASCIITIS; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FLUSHING; GANGRENE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; INFECTION; INJECTION; INJECTION PAIN; INJECTION SITE; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGITIS; MENOPAUSE RELATED DISORDER; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYALGIA; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SNAPPING FINGER; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TENDON RUPTURE; TENNIS ELBOW; BURSITIS; CHRONIC PAIN; FEVER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NECK PAIN; PARALYSIS; PLANTAR FASCIITIS; RASH; TENDINITIS; TENDON;

EID: 0037243917     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6942(02)00122-5     Document Type: Review

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