Neurological symptoms after cervical transforaminal injection with steroids in a patient with hypoplasia of the vertebral artery [7]

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 165-166

  Ruppen, W ^a   Hugli R ^b   Reuss, S ^b   Aeschbach, A ^b   Urwyler, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; NIFEDIPINE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTERY DYSPLASIA; CASE REPORT; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONDYLOSIS; STEROID THERAPY; VASOSPASM; VERTEBRAL ARTERY HYPOPLASIA;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BLOOD; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; PARESTHESIA; SUCTION; TRIAMCINOLONE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 37549037531     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2007.01484.x     Document Type: Letter

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