Value of the magnetic resonance imaging in patients with painful lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) undergoing lumbar epidural steroid injections

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 571-575

  Kapural, Leonardo ^a   Mekhail, Nagy ^a   Bena, James ^a   McLain, Robert ^a   Tetzlaff, John ^a   Kapural, Miranda ^a   Mekhail, Mena ^a   Polk, Samuel ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Lower back pain; Lumbar canal stenosis; Lumbar epidural steroid injections; Lumbar spinal stenosis; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE SULFATE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BACK PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL STENOSIS; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548137324     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e3180e00c34     Document Type: Article

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