Lumbar Spine Injection and Interventional Procedures in the Management of Low Back Pain

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 655-702

  Falco, Frank J E ^a,b   Irwin, Lee ^a   Zhu, Jie ^a  

^a Mid Atlantic Spine and Pain Physicians   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTISONE; GADOLINIUM; HYDROCORTISONE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; WARFARIN;

ARACHNOIDITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLEEDING; CAUDAL ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISKOGRAPHY; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG RESPONSE; EMBOLISM; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPOMATOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; META ANALYSIS; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROLYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PARESTHESIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SACROILIAC JOINT; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPTICEMIA; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN FISTULA; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SYNCOPE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOSIS; TINNITUS; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL REGION;

EID: 33748540434     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coem.2006.04.001     Document Type: Review

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