Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections: Should We Be Performing Them?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 168-

  Provenzano, David Anthony ^a   Fanciullo, Gilbert ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; STEROID;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; EPIDURAL SPACE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LETTER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ARTERIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; RADICULOPATHY; STEROIDS;

EID: 33847679413     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.06.205     Document Type: Letter

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