Complications of fluoroscopically guided interlaminar cervical epidural injections

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 627-633

  Botwin, Kenneth P ^a   Castellanos, Ramon ^a   Rao, Sanjiv ^b   Hanna, Ashraf F ^a   Torres Ramos, Francisco M ^a   Gruber, Robert D ^a   Bouchlas, Constantine G ^a   Fuoco, Glenn S ^a  

^a Florida Spine Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flouroscopy; Injections, epidural; Neck pain; Radiculopathy; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DURA MATER; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUOROSCOPY; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INJURY; INSOMNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADICULAR PAIN; SYNCOPE;

EID: 0038329224     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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