The Role of Caudal Epidural Injections in the Management of Low Back Pain

Bulletin: Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 127-131

  Banaszkiewicz, Paul A ^a,b   Kader, Deiary ^a   Wardlaw, Douglas ^a  

^a WOODEND HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOSPITALS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); RADIOGRAPHY; SURGERY;

CAUDAL EPIDURAL INJECTIONS; RADICULOPATHY;

DISEASES;

MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BUPIVACAINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2342609829     PISSN: 00185647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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