Recent advancements in the treatment of lumbar radicular pain

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 452-456

  Burnett, Chris ^a   Day, Miles ^a,b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Interleukins; Lumbar radicular pain; Tumor necrosis factor alpha

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANALGESIA; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEG PAIN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; PSORIASIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RADICULAR PAIN; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; RADICULOPATHY; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 67650094302     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e328303bfc9     Document Type: Review

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