Epiduroscopy - A review

Scottish Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 79-81

  Gillespie, G ^a   MacKenzie, P ^a  

^a NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; HYALURONIDASE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BLINDNESS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL SPACE; EPIDUROSCOPY; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PARESTHESIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SPINE SURGERY; SYNDROME; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 4544342228     PISSN: 00369330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003693300404900301     Document Type: Review

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