Retrograde filling of a thoracic spinal artery during transforaminal injection

Pain Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 689-692

  Yin, Way ^a,b   Bogduk, Nikolai ^c  

^a Bellingham Spine Pain Specialists   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artery; Complication; Epidural; Injection; Spinal cord; Spine; Steroid

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ANTEGRADE FLOW; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; FEMALE; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; FLOW KINETICS; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ORTHOGRADE FLOW; RADICULAR PAIN; RETROGRADE FLOW; SPINAL GANGLION; THORACIC SPINAL ARTERY; TRANSFORAMINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ARTERIES; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NERVE BLOCK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADICULOPATHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 67049136614     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2009.00629.x     Document Type: Article

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