Successful treatment of phantom radiculopathy with fluoroscopic epidural steroid injections

Pain Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 266-268

  Aydin, Steve M ^a   Zou, Sheng Ping ^a   Varlotta, Gerard ^a   Gharibo, Christopher ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amputee; Disc protrusion; Epidural steroid injection; Phantom pain; Radiculopathy

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; GABAPENTIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYCODONE; STEROID; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHANTOM PAIN; RADICULOPATHY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PHANTOM LIMB; RADICULOPATHY;

EID: 22144496804     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2005.05041.x     Document Type: Article

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