New Onset Lumbar Radicular Pain After Implantation of an Intrathecal Drug Delivery System: Imaging Catheter Migration

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 363-367

  Ko, William M ^a   Ferrante, F Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter migration; Complication; Computed tomography; Implanted drug delivery system; Intrathecal; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE SULFATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CATHETER COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, INTRATRACHEAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745966116     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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