Unilateral Diagnostic Infiltration of Lumbar L3 Nerve Root Resulting in an Inadvertent Discogram: The Importance of Fluoroscopic Guidance in Interventional Pain Therapy

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1019-1021

  Haspeslagh, Sara ^a,b   Van Zundert, Jan ^a,b   Puylaert, Martine ^a   Heylen, Rene ^a   Van Kleef, Maarten ^b   Vissers, Kris ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; IOHEXOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DISKOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PAIN; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 1642414945     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200404000-00038     Document Type: Article

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