Epidural Steroid Injections

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-23

  Hession, Willard G ^a   Stanczak, Jeffrey D ^a   Davis, Kirkland W ^a,b   Choi, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE ACETATE PLUS BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; CORTICOSTEROID; MACROGOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; TRIAMCINOLONE DIACETATE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARACHNOIDITIS; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BONE NECROSIS; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPNEA; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPIDURAL SPACE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEADACHE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; LIPOMATOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICULAR PAIN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 1642433149     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ro.2003.10.010     Document Type: Article

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