On diagnostic blocks for lumbar zygapophysial joint pain

F1000 Medicine Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bogduk, Nikolai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DENERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; JOINT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; NERVE BLOCK; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY NEUROTOMY; REIMBURSEMENT; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ZYGAPOPHYSIAL JOINT;

EID: 78649356439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17575931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3410/M2-57     Document Type: Short Survey

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