Low pain: Prediction of short-term outcome of facet joint injection with bone scintigraphy

Radiology

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 693-698

  Pneumaticos, Spiros G ^a   Chatziioannou, Sofia N ^a,b   Hipp, John A ^a   Moore, Warren H ^a,b   Esses, Stephen I ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE ACETATE PLUS BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; BUPIVACAINE; CORTICOSTEROID; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS PAIN SCORE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BONFERRONI MULTIPLE COMPARISON TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FACET JOINT INJECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JOINT FUNCTION; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MEDICARE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCINTISCANNING; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 31144452739     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2382041930     Document Type: Article

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