Cortical blindness and neurologic injury complicating cervical transforaminal injection for cervical radiculopathy

Anesthesiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 509-511

  McMillan, Marion R ^a   Crumpton, Cynthia ^a  

^a Foothills Regional Pain Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; GADOLINIUM; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOREFLEXIA; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NECK PAIN; NERVE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; TRANSFORAMINAL CERVICAL EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0042344935     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200308000-00038     Document Type: Article

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