The "swimmer's view" as alternative when lateral view is inadequate during interlaminar cervical epidural steroid injections

Pain Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 709-712

  Abbasi, Arjang ^a   Malhotra, Gautam ^b  

^a Interventional Pain Management and Spine Rehabilitation   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical; Epidural; Injection; Interlaminar; Swimmer's

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE ACETATE PLUS BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSESTHESIA; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LIMB PAIN; LORDOSIS; MALE; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPHYTE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SWIMMER VIEW; THORACIC SPINE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; PATIENT POSITIONING; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953712304     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00829.x     Document Type: Article

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