Complications of spinal diagnostic and treatment procedures

Pain Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Bogduk, Nikolai ^a   Dreyfuss, Paul ^b   Baker, Ray ^c   Yin, Way ^c   Landers, Milton ^d   Hammer, Michael ^e   Aprill, Charles ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WICHITA   (United States)

^e Hammer Center for Pain Management   (United States)

^f Magnolia Diagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

Back pain; Complications; Diagnosis; Injection; Neck pain; Spine; Treatment

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISKOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRADISCAL ELECTROTHERMAL THERAPY; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROSURGERY; PAIN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SACROILIAC JOINT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VEIN PUNCTURE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 44349116128     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2008.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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