Cervical transforaminal injection of steroids

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1595-1600

  Rathmell, James P ^a,d   Aprill, Charles ^b   Bogduk, Nikolai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; STEROID;

AREFLEXIA; ARTHRITIS; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CERVICAL TRANSFORAMINAL INJECTION; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DERMATOME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJECTION; INJURY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; REVIEW; SAFETY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL NERVE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; PAIN; RADICULOPATHY; STEROIDS;

EID: 2542429194     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200406000-00035     Document Type: Review

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