Lumbar epidural steroid injections in the patient with lumbar spinal stenosis

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 121-141

  Botwin, Kenneth P ^a   Gruber, Robert D ^a  

^a Florida Spine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; IOPAMIDOL; METRIZAMIDE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ANALGESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONVULSION; CUSHING DISEASE; DEPIGMENTATION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; ERYTHEMA; EUPHORIA; FEVER; FLUID RETENTION; FLUOROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MENINGITIS; MOOD DISORDER; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RASH; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SKIN FISTULA; STANDING; STEROID THERAPY; TASTE DISORDER; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; VERTIGO; WALKING;

FLUOROSCOPY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0037327761     PISSN: 10479651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-9651(02)00048-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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