Radiculopathy in Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis: Correlation of Stenosis with Relief from Selective Nerve Root Steroid Injections

Pain Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-50

  Ploumis, Avraam ^a,b,c   Transfeldt, Ensor E ^a   Gilbert, Thomas J ^b   Mehbod, Amir A ^a   Pinto, Manuel R ^a   Denis, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b TWIN CITIES SPINE CENTER   (United States)

^c Center for Diagnostic Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

Scoliosis; Selective nerve root injections; Stenosis; Steroid; Transforaminal

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; BETAMETHASONE ACETATE PLUS BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; IOHEXOL; LIDOCAINE; STEROID;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 78651261378     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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