The feasibility of color Doppler ultrasonography for caudal epidural steroid injection

Pain

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 210-214

  Yoon, Joon Shik ^a   Kyu, Hun Sim ^a   Sei, Joo Kim ^a   Woo, Sub Kim ^a   Seong, Beom Koh ^b   Kim, Byung Jo ^b  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea University Ansan Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Caudal epidural injection; Fluoroscopy; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACK; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, CAUDAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCIATICA; TRIAMCINOLONE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 27644534582     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.08.014     Document Type: Article

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