Posterior circulation stroke after C1-C2 intraarticular facet steroid injection: Evidence for diffuse microvascular injury

Anesthesiology

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1532-1535

  Edlow, Brian L ^a   Wainger, Brian J ^a   Frosch, Matthew P ^b   Copen, William A ^b   Rathmell, James P ^a   Rost, Natalia S ^b  

^a Division of Pain Medicine   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; COMA; DEATH; DIFFUSE MICROVASCULAR INJURY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STROKE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 77953026453     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181d7b15a     Document Type: Article

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