Influence of needle type on the incidence of intravascular injection during transforaminal epidural injections: a comparison of short-bevel and long-bevel needles

Spine Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 367-371

  Smuck, Matthew ^a   Yu, Andrew J ^b   Tang, Chi Tsai ^b   Zemper, Eric ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural injections; Fluoroscopy; Injection; Needle; Spine

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INCIDENCE; INJECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTRAVASCULAR INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADICULOPATHY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSELS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953284480     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2009.12.018     Document Type: Article

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