Assessment: Use of epidural steroid injections to treat radicular lumbosacral pain: Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 723-729

  Armon, Carmel ^a,b   Argoff, Charles E ^c   Samuels, Jeffrey ^c   Backonja, Misha Miroslav ^d  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; BUPIVACAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; PROCAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARACHNOIDITIS; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FLUSHING; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE BLEEDING; INSOMNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LEG PAIN; LONG TERM CARE; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDULLARY CONE SYNDROME; NAUSEA; NECK PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RADICULAR PAIN; RADICULOPATHY; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL HEMATOMA; STEROID THERAPY; SYNCOPE; ARTICLE; BACK; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; EVALUATION; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; NEURALGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MEDLINE; NEURALGIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEROIDS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 33947532592     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000256734.34238.e7     Document Type: Article

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