How to perform local soft-tissue glucocorticoid injections

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-219

  Jacobs, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bursitis; carpal tunnel syndrome; compression neuropathy; glucocorticoid; injection; lidocaine; periarticular structures; soft tissue rheumatism; tendinitis tendonitis; therapy; treatment

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ANAPHYLAXIS; BURSITIS; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CHRONIC DISEASE; DE QUERVAIN TENOSYNOVITIS; DEPIGMENTATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INJECTION VOLUME; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECCHYMOSIS; EPICONDYLITIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FASCIITIS; FIBROMYALGIA; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INJECTION SITE INFECTION; INJECTION SITE NERVE DAMAGE; INJECTION SITE PAIN; LIPOATROPHY; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; METATARSALGIA; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE LESION; PARESTHESIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLANTAR FASCIITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SYNCOPE; TARSAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; TENDINITIS; TENDON LESION; TENDON RUPTURE; TENOSYNOVITIS; TRIGGER FINGER;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BURSITIS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; LIDOCAINE; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 65249122420     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.11.002     Document Type: Review

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