Cervical Radiculopathy

Disease-a-Month

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 737-756

  Roth, Daniel ^a   Mukai, Ai ^a   Thomas, Priya ^a   Hudgins, Thomas H ^a   Alleva, Joseph T ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREGABALIN; STEROID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BACKACHE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EDEMA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FLUID RETENTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MUSCLE TRAINING; NECK PAIN; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SODIUM RETENTION; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPURLING TEST; TENDON REFLEX; TRACTION THERAPY;

ANALGESICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NECK PAIN; RADICULOPATHY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 71749113647     PISSN: 00115029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2009.06.004     Document Type: Review

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